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This Proto-West 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.
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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *badją.
Noun
*badi n[1]
- plot of ground, flowerbed
- bed
Inflection
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Singular
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*badi
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| Genitive
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*baddjas
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Singular
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Plural
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| Nominative
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*badi
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*baddju
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| Accusative
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*badi
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*baddju
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| Genitive
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*baddjas
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*baddjō
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| Dative
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*baddjē
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*baddjum
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| Instrumental
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*baddju
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*baddjum
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Derived terms
Descendants
- Old English: bedd, bed, bædd
- Old Frisian: bedd
- North Frisian:
- Föhr-Amrum: baad
- Helgoland: Baad
- Mooring: beed
- Saterland Frisian: Bääd
- West Frisian: bêd
- 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”)
- Luxembourgish: Bett
- Rhine Franconian:
- Pennsylvania German: Bett
- Vilamovian: bet
References
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 47: “PWGmc *badi”