bodhaig

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /po.ɪkʲ/

Noun

bodhaig f (genitive singular bodhaige, plural bodhaigean)

1. body (living)
2. physique

Derived terms

Derived terms

• bodhaig an teacsa (“body of text”)
• bodhaig sgudaichte (“dismembered corpse, chunked body (computing)”)
• bodhaigeil (“somatic”)
• bodhaigeach (“anatomical”)
• ball-bodhaig (“limb, organ”)
• spor bodhaig (“frisk, body search”)
• cartadh-bodhaig (“detox”)
• eòlas-bodhaige (“anatomy”)
• gluasad-bodhaig (“gesture”)
• gnìomh bodhaig (“bodily function”)
• modhan-bodhaige (“body language”)
• suathadh bodhaig (“massage”)
• gaiseadh-bodhaig (“physical deformity”)
• ath-bhall-bodhaig (“prosthetic limb, prosthesis”)
• sporghail bodhaig (“frisking”)
• eòlaiche-bodhaige (“anatomist”)
• fàileadh bodhaige (“body odor”)
• cànan na bodhaige (“body language”)
• stocainnean-bodhaige (“tights”)
• tabhartas bhall-bodhaig (“organ donation”)

Mutation

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.