Etymology

orebody

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Today it means: a mass or region of ore Full definition →

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

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

From ore + body.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.