The Etymology of ‘Girl’: Two More Ideas
No proposed etymology for English 'girl' can be more than the merest suggestion, tentatively put forward to provoke further debate. The complete absence of documentation of the word in lexical use before 1300 and as a name before 1200, as well as the lack of cognates in any other language,...
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