English
trainboy
From train + boy.
Latin trahō ‘to pull, to draw’
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Vulgar Latin *traginō
Old French trainer ‘to pull out, to draw’
Old French train ‘a delay, a drawing out’
Middle English trayne ‘train’
English train
Proto-Indo-European *bʰā-
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Proto-Germanic *bōjô ‘younger brother’
Proto-West Germanic *bōjō
Old English *bōia ‘boy’
Middle English boye ‘servant, commoner, knave, boy’
English boy
Today it means
noun A young trainman.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “trainboy”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
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