English
stockboy
From stock + boy.
Proto-Germanic *stukkaz ‘tree-trunk’
Proto-West Germanic *stokk
Old English stocc ‘log, trunk’
Middle English stok ‘tree trunk’
English stock
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 young stockman raising livestock.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / stockboy