Where does “ボディビル” come from?
ボディビル (Japanese) comes from Japanese ボディビルディング, from English bodybuilding, from English building, from English -ing, from Old English -ing, from Old English -tūn, from Old English tūn, from Proto-West Germanic tūn — smoke; mist, haze.
ボディビル (Japanese): bodybuilding
Definitions
- bodybuilding
Ancestry of “ボディビル”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | ボディビルディング | — |
| 2 | English | bodybuilding | A sport in which the aesthetics of muscular... |
| 3 | English | building | The act or process by which something is built;... |
| 4 | English | -ing | Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns,... |
| 5 | Old English | -ing | Forming nouns from verbs, indicating action,... |
| 6 | Old English | -tūn | homestead, village, town |
| 7 | Old English | tūn | enclosure, yard; place; dwelling |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | tūn | fence |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | tūną | fence; enclosure |
| 10 | Gaulish | dunum | fort; hill, hillfort |
| 11 | Proto-Celtic | dūnom | stronghold, rampart |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰewh₂- | smoke; mist, haze |