Bondi [etym. doubtful, one proposed by Morris, J.P.T.S. 1889, 207 derives it fr. bandh=bundh to bind, which is an erroneous comparison; on his hint "probably cognate with E. body" cp. Walde, Lat. Wtb. under fidelia. The orig. meaning may have been, as Morris suggests, "trunk." It certainly is a dial. word] body Pv iv.332; J i.503; ii.160; iii.117; PvA 254.