Where does “body” come from?

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

Ancestry of “body”, step by step

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

Words derived from “body”

Every word from Proto-Turkic *boda- →Every word from Proto-West Germanic bodag →Every word from Old English bodiġ →