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Where does “bodiġ” come from?

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

Ancestry of “bodiġ”, step by step

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

Words derived from “bodiġ”

  • body
  • bodies
  • everybody
  • nobody
  • somebody
  • Body
  • bodily
  • antibody
  • embodiment
  • embody
  • bodied
  • bodyguard
  • bodice
  • bodybuilding
  • bodywork
  • busybody
  • autoantibody
  • Bodie
  • bodybuilder
  • interbody
  • disembodiment
  • bodyweight
  • multibody
  • waterbody
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