PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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No. American Heritage offers a possible chain through a fettered person, fetter, Latin restraint collar, and Greek ox hide; Oxford labels the origin unknown.
/bɔɪ/ · noun
A male child or young man; Middle English also used the word for a male servant or churl, and its origin remains disputed.
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Publishes the route only as possible.
Etymology: possibly Old French embuié through the ox-hide chainPrevents the possible route from being stated as certain ancestry.
Word Origin: origin unknownEvery later edge can be inspected without upgrading the initial proposed borrowing.