bodig
English
Noun
bodig (uncountable)
- (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
Declension
Declension of bodig (strong a-stem)
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | bodiġ | bodiġ |
accusative | bodiġ | bodiġ |
genitive | bodiġes | bodiġa |
dative | bodiġe | bodiġum |
Descendants
- Middle English: body
- English: body
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