Etymology

bodybuilding

bo·dy·build·ing
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Today it means: A sport in which the aesthetics of muscular development is the basis for competition. Full definition →

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

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰewdʰ-der.?
  2. Proto-Germanic*budagą
  3. Proto-West Germanic*bodag
  4. Old Englishbodiġ
  5. Middle Englishbodi
  6. Englishbody
  7. Englishbuilding
  8. English todaybodybuilding

From body + building.

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