Etymograph

English

Oakboy

From oak + boy; they would wear a piece of oak in their hats.

A compound of oak + boy

Proto-Germanic *aiks

Proto-West Germanic *aik

Old English aac

Middle English ake

English oak

Proto-Indo-European *bʰā-

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Proto-Germanic *bōjô ‘younger brother’

Proto-West Germanic *bōjō

Old English *bōia ‘boy’

Middle English boye ‘servant, commoner, knave, boy’

English boy

Today it means

noun A member of the Hearts of Oak, a protest movement of farmers and weavers that arose in County Armagh, Ireland, in 1761, in reaction to excessive taxation.

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