bed
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *badją
Proto-West Germanic *badi
Old English bedd
Middle English bed
English bed
Inherited from Middle English bed, bedde, from Old English bedd, from Proto-West Germanic *badi, from Proto-Germanic *badją (“resting-place, plot of ground”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots bed, North Frisian baad, beed, Bēr, Saterland Frisian Bääd, West Frisian bêd, Cimbrian pett, Dutch bed, Dutch Low Saxon bedde, German Bett, Bette, German Low German Bedd, Luxembourgish Bett, Vilamovian bet, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål bed, Faroese and Icelandic beð, beður, Norwegian Nynorsk bed, bedd, Swedish bädd, Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌳𐌹 (badi), all meaning “bed”.
further possible etymology and cognates
The Proto-Germanic term may in turn be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to dig”) with various theories explaining the development in meaning. If it is, the term is also cognate with Ancient Greek βοθυρος (bothuros, “pit”), Latin fossa (“ditch”), Latvian bedre (“hole”), Welsh bedd (“grave”), Breton bez (“grave”); and probably also Russian бодать (bodatʹ, “to butt, gore”).
Inflected forms:
form: beds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bedding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bedded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bedded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I usually listen to music before I bed.
gloss: Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For she was not only publicly contracted, but stated as a bride, and solemnly bedded, and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador with letters of procuration
gloss: Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: And he who lies with another Man's Wife after she is married, even before her Husband had bedded with her, is guilty of Adultery, […]
gloss: Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 1810/1835, William Wordsworth, Guide to the Lakes
Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded.
But I must warn you that chipboard floors are always likely to squeak. The material is still being used in new-builds, but developers now use adhesive to bed and joint it, rather than screws or nails. I suspect the adhesive will eventually embrittle and crack, resulting in the same squeaking problems as before.
gloss: Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Your bedded hair like life in excrements
gloss: Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
pos: verb
Derived words: bed down
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