Where does “bodies” come from?

Bodies comes from Middle English body, Old English bodiġ, Proto-West Germanic bodag, and ultimately Proto-Indo-European bʰewdʰ-, of uncertain original meaning.

bodies (English): plural of body; Third-person singular simple...

Definitions

  1. plural of body; Third-person singular simple...

Ancestry of “bodies”, 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 “bodies”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰewdʰ- →Every word from Proto-Germanic beudaną →Every word from Proto-Germanic budô →