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English word body comes from Proto-Indo-European *bʰowdʰéyeti (To awaken, arouse. To make aware.), Old English bodig (Bodily presence. Body, trunk, torso, chest. Stature.)
*bʰowdʰéyeti (Proto-Indo-European)
To awaken, arouse. To make aware.
bodig (Old English)
Bodily presence. Body, trunk, torso, chest. Stature.
*budagą (Proto-Germanic)
(West Germanic) body, trunk, corpse.
bodeġ (Old English)
bodiȝ (Middle English)
body (English)
(transitive) To embody.. (transitive, slang, African American Vernacular English) To murder someone.. (transitive, slang, African American Vernacular English, by extension) To utterly defeat someone.. To construct the bodywork of a car.. To give body or shape to something. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought): A bodysuit. [from 19th c.]. (archaic) The section [...]