bodig

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.

• bodeġ

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbodij/

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

• Middle English: body
  • English: body