gebedda

From Proto-West Germanic *gabaddjō. Cognate with Old Frisian bedda and Old Saxon gibeddio. Equivalent to ġe- +‎ bedd +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): /jeˈbed.dɑ/

ġebedda m

1. someone who lies in bed with someone else: bedfellow
2. husband or wife
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints

     Sē þeġn wæs wuniende butan wīfes nēawiste, forþan þe his ġebedda ġefaren wæs of life.

     The thane was living without the companionship of a woman, for his wife had departed from life.

3. consort

Weak:

• ġebedde

Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ge-bedda”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ge-bedda”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ge-bedda”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.