boar

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English word boar comes from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoidʰ, Proto-Germanic *baizaz, and later Proto-Germanic *bairaz (Boar.)

*bʰoidʰ (Proto-Indo-European)

*baizaz (Proto-Germanic)

*bairaz (Proto-Germanic)

Boar.

bār (Old English)

boor (Middle English)

boar (English)

A male pig.. A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.

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