Etymology

boet

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Today it means: A brother; often prefixed informally to a man’s first name. Full definition →

Afrikaans boet ← West Flemish boet
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The story

  1. West Flemish · derived fromboet“boy, youth”
  2. Afrikaans · borrowed fromboet“brother, comrade”
  3. English todayboet

From Afrikaans boet (“brother, comrade”), from a Zealandic, West Flemish boet (“boy, youth”), probably a hypocoristic form of broeder (“brother”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.