1214: boychik: Adopted Adopted Words Apr 6, 2018

English has a great deal of borrowed words; not only is nearly 60% of this language's vocabulary of Romantic origin (even if many of those words are restricted for specific fields like law and science), but also because unlike French and other languages, there is no one official body of linguistic regulation. Of course, other languages have plenty of adopted words as well, including lots from English given its global presence. The word 'boychik' (meaning 'young man') stands out among these however because not only is it a loan word in English from Yiddish but also it comes from a loan word in Yiddish from English. The word entered Yiddish from the English word 'boy' and the Slavic suffix '-chik' which is diminutive. Later, 'boychik' entered English as a slang term in Jewish English.

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