Editing Boal (section)

==Etymology==
Etymologically, it is usually considered that "Boal" comes either from the [[Indo-European languages|Indo-european languages]], '''''*bod-''''' ([[stream]], [[ditch]]), or from the [[Latin]], '''''bove''''' or '''''*bovale''''' (ox). Although some authors believe that "Boal" could be understood as the expression of an old anthroponym or person name, Bovali (iler) or Baudiliu (adducing the form Baudali), it is common to consider its original meaning either as ''"terreno frecuentado y apropiado para el pasto del ganado vacuno"'' ("land frequented and appropriate for the grazing of cattle") or as ''"corral de bueyes o dehesa boyal"'' ("[[corral]] for oxen or ox [[pasture]]"). In fact, [[Corominas]] mentions in [[Aragonese language|Aragonese]] ''boalage, boalar, "dehesa boyal"'' ("ox pasture") as derivatives of ''boal'', which would be at the same time a variant of ''boyal, "perteneciente al buey o al ganado vacuno"'' ("belonging to ox or to cattle") .

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BOAL is clearly a tribal name dating back to the most ancient times among the Celts ~ as with Mac, Mc, O', so to with BO used as a minor honorific to the basic tribal affiliation AL, itself showing up in virtually all Celtic languages around the Bay of Biscay as Gaul, Gal, Ouil, ~ themselves derivative likely of the same root word as IR, the founding invader of Scota (now Ireland) who came from Galicia ~  cognate versions of BOAL would be McWallace, Magellan (Magelheis), Bohal, Bonal, and even Carvajal, as in Gaelic "Ker" "Bohal" or House of Bohal.  Cornish has numerous forms that begin with 'bo' usually meaning "bottom of the hill" or even a "bog" which suggests a likely common origin with normal defensive sites used by ancient Celts and thereby through their noble class to defend themselves ~ a rough antipodal version of Castro, itself a Celtic Ironage Hilltop Fort!  Use of the 'bo' to mean "bog" would be inappropriate in Brittany since every part of that ancient land was renamed by Cornish and Welsh settlers between 542AD and about 900AD ~

Another version is found in Carbonaris or Beauharnois or possibly Beaujolais (aka, pronounced as BoHaLy ~ and sometimes confounded with the Aquitainian name for a bagpipe.--->