belly – English noun declension

English noun forms of belly

Noun: belly
Singularbelly
Pluralbellies

Sample Sentences

  • You've grown a belly over Christmas! Time to join the gym again.
  • My belly was full of wine.
  • Before I formed thee in the bellie, I knew thee; […] [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 1:5:]
  • There was no heat, and we shivered in the belly of the plane. [1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 454:]
  • the belly of a flask, muscle, violin, sail, or ship
  • […] I cried by reason of mine affliction vnto the Lord, and hee heard mee; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voyce. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jonah 2:2:]
  • At last I got my knife and cut the halyards. The peak dropped instantly, a great belly of loose canvas floated broad upon the water […] [1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-is
4. Proto-Indo-European *bʰólǵʰis
5. Proto-Germanic *balgiz
6. Proto-West Germanic *balgi
7. Old English bielġ
8. Middle English bely
9. English belly
10. Inherited from Middle English bely, beli, bali, below, belew, balyw, from Old English bielġ (“bag, pouch, bulge”), from Proto-West Germanic *balgi, *balgu, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz, *balguz (“skin, hide, bellows, bag”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell, blow up”). Cognate with Dutch balg, German Balg, Danish bælg, Old Irish bolg, Welsh bol. Doublet of bellows, blague, bulge, and budge. See also bellows.
11. For the belly — bellows relation, compare typologically Macedonian мев (mev, “abdomen, belly; bellows”). Also compare Ancient Greek φῦσα (phûsa, “bellows; bladder; ...”), Latin venter — vēsīca, Russian пу́зо (púzo) — пузы́рь (puzýrʹ), пузырёк (puzyrjók). See: Middle English Nouns 'bely', Middle English Nouns 'bely', Dutch Nouns 'balg', Danish Nouns 'bælg'.

Verbs referencing "belly"

Latin Nouns follis.