Where does “bodiȝ” come from?

bodiȝ (Middle English) comes from Old English bodiġ, from Proto-West Germanic bodag, from Proto-Turkic *boda-.

Ancestry of “bodiȝ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishbodiġstature
2Proto-West Germanicbodagbody, trunk, corpse
3Proto-Turkic*boda-—

Words derived from “bodiȝ”

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