Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Scots bouk (body, trunk). Compare Old Norse búkr (trunk (of the body), torso), German Bauch (belly, abdomen), all from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (belly, body). The Gaelic word has been compared by Fick with English body, from Old English bodig, and Murray says it is thence derived, but the <d> would scarcely disappear and leave the soft <g> ending now so hard.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bodhaig f (genitive singular bodhaige, plural bodhaigean)

  1. body (living)
  2. physique

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
bodhaig bhodhaig
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.