Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/badją
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]
- bed
- bedding, cushion
- (West Germanic and originally?) plot of ground
Inflection
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
- Old Frisian: bedd
- Old Saxon: bed, bedd, beddi
- Old Dutch: beddi
- Middle Dutch: bedde
- Dutch: bed
- Limburgish: bèd
- → French: bedde (“matress”) (dialectal)
- Middle Dutch: bedde
- Old High German: betti, beti
- Old Norse: beðr m (“bolster, bedding”)
- Gothic: 𐌱𐌰𐌳𐌹 (badi)
- → Proto-Finnic: *patja (“pillow, mattress”) (see there for further descendants)
References
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 2.0 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