Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to belly
Participle: bellied
Gerund: bellying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | belly |
| you | belly |
| he;she;it | bellies |
| we | belly |
| you | belly |
| they | belly |
Perfect
| I | have bellied |
| you | have bellied |
| he;she;it | has bellied |
| we | have bellied |
| you | have bellied |
| they | have bellied |
Past
| I | bellied |
| you | bellied |
| he;she;it | bellied |
| we | bellied |
| you | bellied |
| they | bellied |
Pluperfect
| I | had bellied |
| you | had bellied |
| he;she;it | had bellied |
| we | had bellied |
| you | had bellied |
| they | had bellied |
Future
| I | will belly |
| you | will belly |
| he;she;it | will belly |
| we | will belly |
| you | will belly |
| they | will belly |
Future Perfect
| I | will have bellied |
| you | will have bellied |
| he;she;it | will have bellied |
| we | will have bellied |
| you | will have bellied |
| they | will have bellied |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | belly |
| you | belly |
| he;she;it | belly |
| we | belly |
| you | belly |
| they | belly |
Perfect
| I | have bellied |
| you | have bellied |
| he;she;it | have bellied |
| we | have bellied |
| you | have bellied |
| they | have bellied |
Imperfect
| I | bellied |
| you | bellied |
| he;she;it | bellied |
| we | bellied |
| you | bellied |
| they | bellied |
Pluperfect
| I | had bellied |
| you | had bellied |
| he;she;it | had bellied |
| we | had bellied |
| you | had bellied |
| they | had bellied |
Conditional
Present
| I | would belly |
| you | would belly |
| he;she;it | would belly |
| we | would belly |
| you | would belly |
| they | would belly |
Perfect
| I | would have bellied |
| you | would have bellied |
| he;she;it | would have bellied |
| we | would have bellied |
| you | would have bellied |
| they | would have bellied |
Imperative
| you | belly |
| we | Let's belly |
| you | belly |
Verbs conjugated like 'belly'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'belly'
beely,
belay,
bell,
bully,
jelly,
ally,
ball,
balls,
beal,
bebay,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E. belg, bylg (W.Saxon), bælg (Anglian) "leather bag, purse, bellows," from P.Gmc. *balgiz "bag" (cf. O.N. belgr "bag, bellows," bylgja "billow," Goth. balgs "wineskin"), from PIE *bhelgh- "to swell," extension of root *bhel- "to inflate, swell" (see bole). Meaning shifted to "body" (c.1275), then to "abdomen" (1340). Meaning "bulging part or concave surface of anything" is 1591; the verb "to swell out" is from 1624. The W.Gmc. root had an extended sense of "anger, arrogance" (cf. O.E. bolgenmod "enraged;" belgan (v.) "to become angry"). Belly-button for "navel" is from 1877. Bellyache (v.) in the slang sense of "complain" is first recorded 1888. Belly-dance (1899) translates Fr. danse du ventre.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-is
5. Proto-Indo-European *bʰólǵʰis
6. Proto-Germanic *balgiz
7. Proto-West Germanic *balgi
8. Old English bielġ
9. Middle English bely
10. English belly
11. 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.
12. 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).
Verbs referencing "belly"
Bislama bel.
Sample Sentences
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Bellying forward to the edge of the clearing, he found Hans, lying on his face, feathered with arrows like a porcupine. [1903 July, Jack London, “The Sounding of the Call”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 220:]
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The Pow'r appeaſ'd, with Winds ſuffic'd the Sail, / The bellying Canvaſs ſtrutted with the Gale; […] [1700, [John] Dryden, “Homer’s Ilias”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, book I, page 213:]
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The halliards twanged against the tops, the bunting bellied broad, [1890, Rudyard Kipling, The Rhyme of the Three Captains:]
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There were trees whose trunks bellied into huge swellings. [1914, Theodore Roosevelt, chapter 6, in Through the Brazilian Wilderness:]
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1917 rev. 1925 Ezra Pound, "Canto I"
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winds from sternward
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Bore us onward with bellying canvas ...
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1930, Otis Adelbert Kline, The Prince of Peril, serialized in Argosy, Chapter 1,
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The building stood on a circular foundation, and its walls, instead of mounting skyward in a straight line, bellied outward and then curved in again at the top.
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Your breath of full consent bellied his sails; […] [c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:]
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A breeze which had crossed a thousand miles of wheat-lands bellied her taffeta skirt in a line so graceful, so full of animation and moving beauty, that the heart of a chance watcher on the lower road tightened to wistfulness over her quality of suspended freedom. [1920, Sinclair Lewis, chapter I, in Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC:]