boar
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Middle English boor, from Old English bār, from Proto-Germanic *baizaz (compare Dutch beer, German dialect Bär), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoidʰ-s-o (compare Lithuanian baĩsas 'terrible apparition', Old Church Slavonic бѣсъ (bĕsĭ) 'demon'), enlargement of *bʰoidʰ-. More at bad.
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boar (plural boars)
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male pig
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wild boar
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boar m. (definite singular boaren; indefinite plural boarar; definite plural boarane)
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- boer (Bokmål)
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From Vulgar Latin bovārius or boārius, from Latin bōs. Compare French bouvier, Italian boaro, Portuguese boieiro, Spanish boyero.
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boar c.
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