From: Brian M. Scott Message: 25639 Date: 2003-09-08
At 5:19:32 AM on Monday, September 8, 2003, tgpedersen
wrote:
> I've seen it suggested that 'poika' was the ultimate
> source of English 'boy'.
Unlikely. The word itself isn't recorded before 1300, but
there's an OE masculine name *<Boia> found in a number of
place-names that seems likely to be derived from an
unrecorded precursor.