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
From Proto-West Germanic *bodag (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, observe”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bodiġ n
- stature[1]
- Wæs Oswine se cyning on bodiġe hēah.
- King Oswine was tall in stature.
- bodily presence
- body, trunk, torso, chest
Declension
Declension of bodiġ (strong a-stem)
Descendants
References
- ^ Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “bodig”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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