Etymology

Boii

Boi·i
B3O1I1I1

Today it means: A Gallic tribe of the later Iron Age. Full definition →

Latin Boiī ← Proto-Celtic *bāus ← Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*gʷṓws
  2. Proto-Celtic*bāus
  3. LatinBoiī
  4. English todayBoii

Learned borrowing from Latin Boiī.

Words from the same roots

LatinBoiī all →

bojite

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.