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Sooo I looked through the EB to find the source listed under sources, since it says "article name needed". There's an article "footman", but it is solely about the furniture. There is no article "footboy". What entry was sourced for this article? -- Anonyma ( talk) 21:12, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
This article seems to confuse the fact that the word footman is an old term for an infantryman with an etymological link. OED does not show this [1] but rather they both derive from the simple co-incidence that they both refer to a man on foot, rather than on a horse. I would therefore recommend that this article be taken out of MILHIST. Monstrelet ( talk) 08:53, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
The article also states that the synonymous term "lackey" has a similar entomology. I don't see how two completely different words can have the same etymology. According to the article on "lackey", this term probably derives from words meaning "messenger", while "footman" obviously refers to someone who serves on foot.
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Sooo I looked through the EB to find the source listed under sources, since it says "article name needed". There's an article "footman", but it is solely about the furniture. There is no article "footboy". What entry was sourced for this article? -- Anonyma ( talk) 21:12, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
This article seems to confuse the fact that the word footman is an old term for an infantryman with an etymological link. OED does not show this [1] but rather they both derive from the simple co-incidence that they both refer to a man on foot, rather than on a horse. I would therefore recommend that this article be taken out of MILHIST. Monstrelet ( talk) 08:53, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
The article also states that the synonymous term "lackey" has a similar entomology. I don't see how two completely different words can have the same etymology. According to the article on "lackey", this term probably derives from words meaning "messenger", while "footman" obviously refers to someone who serves on foot.
Wschart (
talk)
13:20, 31 March 2016 (UTC)