Etymology

bulimic

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Today it means: Suffering from bulimia nervosa. Full definition →

English bulimia ← Ancient Greek βουλῑμῐ́ᾱ (boulīmĭ́ā) ← Proto-Hellenic *gʷous
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*gʷṓws
  2. Proto-Hellenic*gʷous
  3. Ancient Greekβοῦς (boûs)
  4. Ancient Greekλῑμός (līmós)
  5. Ancient Greekβούλῑμος (boúlīmos)
  6. Ancient Greekβουλῑμῐ́ᾱ (boulīmĭ́ā)
  7. Englishbulimia
  8. English todaybulimic

From bulimia + -ic.

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