Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly. · To swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow. · To cause to swell out; to fill.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *bʰólǵʰis Proto-Germanic *balgiz Proto-West Germanic *balgi Old English bielġ Middle English bely English belly Inherited from Middle English bely, beli, bali, below, belew, balyw, from Old English bielġ (“bag, pouch, bulge”), from Proto-West Germanic *balgi, *balgu, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz, *balguz (“skin, hide, bellows, bag”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell, blow up”). Cognate with Dutch balg, German Balg, Danish bælg, Old Irish bolg, Welsh bol. Doublet of bellows, blague, bulge, and budge. See also bellows. For the belly — bellows relation, compare typologically Macedonian мев (mev, “abdomen, belly; bellows”). Also compare Ancient Greek φῦσα (phûsa, “bellows; bladder; ...”), Latin venter — vēsīca, Russian пу́зо (púzo) — пузы́рь (puzýrʹ), пузырёк (puzyrjók).
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionbelyenm
- Inherited-form mentionbielġang · bag, pouch, bulge
- Inherited-form mention*balgigmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*balgizgem-pro
- Derivation mention*bʰelǵʰ-ine-pro · to swell, blow up
- Cognate mentionbalgnl
- Cognate mentionBalgde
- Cognate mentionbælgda
- Cognate mentionbolgsga
- Cognate mentionbolcy
- Doublet mentionbellowsen
- Doublet mentionblagueen
- Doublet mentionbulgeen
- Doublet mentionbudgeen
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"To position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly.",
"To swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow.",
"To cause to swell out; to fill."
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