Körper

Etymology
From, , , from , inflected stem of.

The word displaced first the predecessor of, (now “corpse”) and later on  (now dated, literary, religious). Doublet of,. The umlaut remained rare until the 16th century. Its derivation from the -i- in, seems unlikely in such a late borrowing. Probably the dissimilated variant received the umlaut by analogy with diminutives in. Some Central German dialects show secondary umlaut before -r- + labial (see 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬), but precisely these dialects make little or no use of this word. See for more.

Noun

 * 1) body (of a person, animal, etc.)
 * 2)  body
 * 3)  body, solid three-dimensional object
 * 4)  field algebraic structure with addition and multiplication