Where does “bodied” come from?

Bodied is the past participle of body, derived from Middle English -ed, Old English -od, Proto-Germanic -ōdaz, and Proto-Indo-European bʰewdʰ-.

bodied (English): Having a specified form of body; Having a bodily...

Definitions

  1. Having a specified form of body; Having a bodily...

Ancestry of “bodied”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishBodyCorpus Christi College, Cambridge
2Middle Englishbodemessenger
3Old Englishbodamessenger, envoy, herald, apostle, angel; prophet
4Proto-Germanicbudômessenger
5Proto-Germanicbeudanąto offer, to bid
6Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰewdʰ-to be awake, be aware

Words derived from “bodied

Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰewdʰ-