Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/badją

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

    Uncertain;[1] possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰodʰh₂-yó-m (dug-out plot of land), from *bʰedʰh₂- (to dig, burrow; to pierce, stab) +‎ *-yóm[2] (the supposed intermediate meaning would be paralleled in Proto-Celtic *bedom (ditch, grave) and explain the sense flowerbed in West Germanic); or perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₁-tó-s (warm), from *bʰeh₁- (to warm) +‎ *-tós, whence *baþą (bath),[1] Dutch betten (to warm up).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈbɑð.jɑ̃/

    Noun

    *badją n[2]

    1. bed
    2. bedding, cushion
    3. (West Germanic and originally?) plot of ground

    Inflection

    Declension of *badją (neuter ja-stem)
    singular plural
    nominative *badją *badjō
    vocative *badją *badjō
    accusative *badją *badjō
    genitive *badjas, *badis *badjǫ̂
    dative *badjai *badjamaz
    instrumental *badjō *badjamiz

    Derived terms

    • *badjô, *gabadjô
    • *badjǭ, *gabadjǭ

    Descendants

    • Proto-West Germanic: *badi
      • Old English: bedd, bed, bædd
        • Middle English: bedde, bed
      • Old Frisian: bedd
      • Old Saxon: bed, bedd, beddi
      • Old Dutch: beddi
        • Middle Dutch: bedde
          • Dutch: bed
            • Afrikaans: bed
            • Berbice Creole Dutch: bedi
            • Negerhollands: bet, bedi, bere, bedde
              • Virgin Islands Creole: bedi (archaic)
            • Skepi Creole Dutch: bede
            • Caribbean Javanese: bèt
            • ? Mohegan-Pequot: beed
            • Papiamentu: bèt, bèchi, bèrchi, bed
            • Saramaccan: bédi
            • ? Sranan Tongo: bedi
              • Caribbean Hindustani: bedi
              • Caribbean Javanese: bèḍi
              • Kari'na: bedi
          • Limburgish: bèd
          • French: bedde (matress) (dialectal)
      • Old High German: betti, beti
        • Middle High German: bette, bete, bet
          • Alemannic German: Bett
            Swabian: Bedd
          • Bavarian:
            Cimbrian: pett
          • German: Bett (bed), Beet (flowerbed)
            • Danish: bed
              • Norwegian Bokmål: bed
          • Luxembourgish: Bett
          • Rhine Franconian:
            Pennsylvania German: Bett
          • Vilamovian: bet
    • Old Norse: beðr m (bolster, bedding)
    • Gothic: 𐌱𐌰𐌳𐌹 (badi)
    • Proto-Finnic: *patja (pillow, mattress) (see there for further descendants)

    References

    1. 1.0 1.1 Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) “bed”, in An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 201 of 33-34
    2. 2.0 2.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*badja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 46

    Further reading

    • de Vaan, Michiel (2014) “West Germanic *þþ and *þm in Dutch”, in Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik[2], volume 72, pages 8-9