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PARTIAL ENGLISH COVERAGE · FULL CORPUS REMAINS LOCAL3 source sections across 2 headwords matching “Body”. These are separate from the reviewed results below.
BodyEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
* As an English surname, from Middle English body, probably a nickname for a corpulent person; and occupational surname from Middle English bode (“messenger”) + -y (diminutive ending). Equivalent to bode (“messenger, herald”) + -y. * As a French surname, variant of Bodin. * As a Hungarian surname Bódy, variant of Bódi, Bodi.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bodyEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
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.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bodyEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
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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Mayhew–Skeat (1888)
1888; pinned HTML transcription updated October 28, 20240112
MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
nounhistorical form
bayou
English bayou, recorded by 1763, came from Louisiana French bayouque. An early Choctaw *bayok is a plausible proposed source, but the historical form and its alleged contraction to modern bók are not securely attested.
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disaster
A catastrophe whose name preserves an astrological model of misfortune: an unfavorable star.
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hospice
A program or facility for palliative care, historically a lodging or shelter for travelers, the poor, or the infirm.
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hospital
A medical institution whose name first referred to guest accommodation and charitable lodging, through Medieval Latin hospitāle.
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hospitality
The reception and care of guests, inherited through French from the Latin reciprocal host-and-guest family.
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host
A person who receives guests, borrowed through Anglo-French from Latin hospes, a word that could name either side of a reciprocal hospitality relationship.
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hostel
A lodging place, especially an inexpensive dormitory-style accommodation, continuing the older hospitality branch shared with hospital and hotel.
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hotel
A public lodging establishment, borrowed from French hôtel through Old French hostel and ultimately the Latin hospitality family.
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law
A binding rule, body of rules, or regular principle; a Scandinavian loan in Old English whose deepest secure family means lie or lay.
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legible
Capable of being read or deciphered; from Late Latin legibilis and Latin legere “to read.”
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legislation
The making of laws or laws collectively; from French and Late Latin legislatio, a law-proposing or law-bearing formation.
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muscle
A body tissue or organ whose English name descends through French from Latin musculus, a diminutive of mūs “mouse.”
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HISTORICAL FORMS
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Proto-Indo-European / Indo-European
*ghos-pot-
guest-master; person embodying a reciprocal hospitality relationship
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- Proto-Indo-European prehistory
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Italian / early Italian / Indo-European
astro
star; celestial body
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- Italian
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
bayou
a creek, secondary watercourse, or sluggish body of water
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- 1763–today
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
law
binding rule, body of rules, or regular principle
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- Middle English continuation–today
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Middle English / Indo-European
lawe / laue
law, ordinance, or body of rules
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
legislation
the making of laws, laws collectively, or business before a legislative body
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- 1606–today
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French / Indo-European
législation
law-making authority, action, or body of laws
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- French, 14th century onward
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Medieval Latin / Indo-European
lēgislātiō, lēgislātiōnem
proposal or bearing of a law; later a body of laws
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
muscle
contractile body tissue; later strength or coercive power
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- 14th century–today
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
science
an organized body or branch of knowledge
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- 16th–18th centuries
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Modern Greek / Indo-European
μυς
mysa body muscle; in learned use, also a mouse
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Ancient Greek / Indo-European
μῦς
mŷsmouse; also a muscle of the body
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CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 1
resolvedestablishedposition text
Are Greek mouse and muscle merely accidental homonyms?
The reviewed Liddell–Scott entry treats μῦς as one lexical entry with both rodent and body-muscle senses, and Modern Greek explicitly derives both learned senses from Ancient Greek.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 2
RANK 3GRADE Aranked reveal
Robot named forced labor before machinery.
The machine word begins in Czech robota: compulsory labor, corvée, or drudgery.
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In Greek, a muscle is still a mouse.
Ancient Greek μῦς named both the rodent and a body muscle. Modern Greek μυς preserves the anatomical branch and records the mouse sense as learned vocabulary.
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BOOKS / DICTIONARIES / ARTICLES / DATABASES
SOURCES
No reviewed record in this collection contains “body.” Absence describes this graph, not all of linguistic scholarship.
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FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
ATTESTATION WITNESSES
DIRECTLY INSPECTEDprinted book
John Harris’s Lexicon technicum prints MUSCLE as a headword and defines its role in voluntary animal motion.
muscle / muscle / 1704
Lexicon technicum: or, an universal English dictionary of arts and scienceswitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗DIRECTLY INSPECTEDprinted book
The SYSTEM entry in John Harris’s Lexicon technicum uses Science for an organized branch of knowledge when defining a system of philosophy.
science / science / 1704
Lexicon technicum: or, an universal English dictionary of arts and scienceswitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗06
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