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ill-boding

adj

Etymology

From ill + boding.

  1. inherited from *bʰewdʰ-✻
  2. inherited from *budą✻ — “message; offer”
  3. inherited from *bod✻ — “command, mandate, order”
  4. inherited from bod — “command, edict, order”
  5. inherited from bod — “foreboding, omen; message, report; command, edict; (Christianity) commandment; etc.”
  6. inherited from *bʰewdʰ-✻ — “to be awake; to be aware”
  7. inherited from *budōną✻ — “to announce, proclaim; to call, summon”
  8. inherited from *bodōn✻ — “to announce, proclaim; to call, summon”
  9. inherited from bodian — “to announce, proclaim, tell; to foretell, prophesy; to preach; etc.”
  10. inherited from boden
  11. suffixed as boding — “bode + ing”
  12. compounded as ill-boding — “ill + boding”

Definitions

  1. Which bodes evil

    Which bodes evil; portending bad things.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at ill-boding. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at ill-boding. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at ill-boding

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA