Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo give body or shape to something. · To construct the bodywork of a car. · To embody. · To murder someone.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ-der.? Proto-Germanic *budagą Proto-West Germanic *bodag Old English bodiġ Middle English bodi English body From Middle English body, bodi, bodiȝ, from Old English bodiġ, bodeġ (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodag (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, observe”). Cognate with Old High German botah (“body, corpse, trunk, torso”) (whence Swabian Bottich (“body, torso”), Bavarian Bottich (“body, torso, carcass; lower part of a shirt or jacket”)). See also bodice.
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionbodyenm
- Inherited-form mentionbodiġang
- Inherited-form mention*bodaggmw-pro · body, trunk
- Derivation mention*bʰewdʰ-ine-pro · to be awake, observe
- Cognate mentionbotahgoh · body, corpse, trunk, torso
- Cognate mentionBottichswg · body, torso
- Cognate mentionBottichbar · body, torso, carcass; lower part of a shirt or jacket
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