No faux pas. We wander all over the map in many of these threads. And they're both good questions. I know the first one is "yes". In fact, we stole boor from Dutch, according to AHD4. It's also the same word as the German Bauer. According to AHD4, they're also related to the English word bower if you go back far enough. They're not related to boar, which is from Old English.