DictionaryRoot: bodig
Old English

bodig

trunk; whole physical structure

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An entirely empty meeting room with chairs around a table; no person anywhere.
pronoun / noun

nobody

NOH-buh-dee/ˈnəʊbədi/

Not any person.

Etymology

Body extended from a person's physical frame to the person as a whole. Combined with no meaning “not any,” it gives “not any person,” rather than referring merely to an absence of physical bodies.

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