bodig

bodig

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboʊ.dɪɡ/

Noun

bodig (uncountable)

1. (medicine) A medical condition prevalent on Guam, or an aspect of Lytico-Bodig disease, which causes dementia.
   • ´1997, Oliver Sacks, The Island of the Colorblind:

     Only by degrees did it become clear to them, and him, that this was an organic malady, an all-too-familiar one, the bodig.

   • 2011 March 10, Carlo Colosimo; David E. Riley; Gregor K. Wenning, Handbook of Atypical Parkinsonism, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 108:

     Often lumped with lytico owing to clinical, familial, and pathological associations, is the parkinsonism-dementia complex of Guam (PDCG), known locally as bodig; 40% of patients with bodig also have lytico. PDCG has its onset in middle […]

Derived terms

• lytico-bodig

References

• 2011 June 30, Robert F. Rogers, Destiny's Landfall: A History of Guam, Revised Edition, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 208:

  The naval physicians renamed the bodig aspect of the disease, in which the spinal cord and brain are attacked, parkinsonism-dementia complex. In ALS, the lytico aspect, a sound brain is imprisoned in a paralyzed body.

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Old English

Alternative forms

• bodeġ

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbo.dij/

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 bodig (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	bodiġ	bodiġ
accusative	bodiġ	bodiġ
genitive	bodiġes	bodiġa
dative	bodiġe	bodiġum

Descendants

• Middle English: bodi, bode, boddy, boady, boody, boode
  • English: body
  • Scots: body
  • Yola: buthee, bodhee, bothige

References

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