bodig

English

Noun

bodig (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) Lytico-Bodig disease
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Robert F. Rogers to this entry?)
    • Oliver Sacks, The Island of the Colour-blind
      Only by degrees did it become clear to them, and him, that this was an organic malady, an all-too-familiar one, the bodig.

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Of uncertain origin, but cognate with Old High German botah (“body, trunk, corpse”).[1][2] Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *budaga,[3] from Proto-Germanic *budagą (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, observe”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbodij/

Noun

bodiġ n

  1. stature[4]
    Wæs Oswine se cyning on bodiġe hēah.
    King Oswine was tall in stature.
  2. bodily presence
  3. body, trunk, torso, chest

Declension

Descendants

References

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