iapetoc
Junior Member
Interesting Dagne, Boyar might be old celtic title/world after all.
Looks like it has IE origin, boi, boy, battle. In slavic battle - bitva, fight - buika, go to fight- do boiu. In many instances b changed to V, and we have many words like war-voina, soldier-voiak, fighting-valka. (I used english-phonetics more than correct polish spelling .
nope it is not IE Sherif and Boyar or Bollan is Turkish words,
Sherif means chiftain, and boyar means guardian,
in fact boyar means 'tough quy' i agree with dagne,
I don't know if avars or others,