Etymology

aerobody

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Today it means: A vehicle or engineered body designed to travel through air. Full definition →

English body ← Middle English bodi ← Old English bodiġ
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ews-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ewsér
  3. Proto-Hellenic*auhḗr
  4. Ancient Greekᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr)
  5. Ancient Greekἀέρος (aéros)
  6. Englishaero-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*bʰewdʰ-der.?
  8. Proto-Germanic*budagą
  9. Proto-West Germanic*bodag
  10. Old Englishbodiġ
  11. Middle Englishbodi
  12. Englishbody
  13. English todayaerobody

From aero- + body.

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