Where boys, girls and children come from
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2012
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Adam Mickiewicz University
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The etymology of three very frequent English words child, girl and boy has been notoriously
obscure because researchers have failed to pay attention to possible Slavic influence. This article
is aimed at rectifying this major oversight by providing abundant evidence of both formal and
semantic similarities between the English items and the corresponding Slavic ones and at establishing
Scandinavian as an intermediary for girl and boy, no such connector being necessary for
child.
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Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 47.2-3 (2012), pp. 59-68