bodig

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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

From Proto-West Germanic *bodag (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, observe”).

Pronunciation

Noun

bodiġ n

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

Declension

Declension of bodiġ (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative bodiġ bodiġ
accusative bodiġ bodiġ
genitive bodiġes bodiġa
dative bodiġe bodiġum

Descendants

  • Middle English: body

References

  1. ^ Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “bodig”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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