Etymograph

English

farmboy

From farm + boy.

A compound of farm + boy

Medieval Latin ferma

Anglo-Norman ferme ‘rent, lease, farm’

Middle English ferme ‘rent, revenue’

English farm

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 boy or young man who works on a farm, especially one who is growing up there as a child of the farmer.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / farmboy