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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/badją
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Uncertain[1]; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰodʰh₂-yó-m (“ditch, grave”), from *bʰedʰh₂- (“to dig, burrow; to pierce, stab”) + *-yóm[2], 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
Inflection
neuter ja-stemDeclension of *badją (neuter ja-stem) | |||
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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
- Scots: bede, bed
- English: bed
- Middle English: bedde, bed
- Old Frisian: bedd
- North Frisian:
- Föhr-Amrum: baad
- Helgoland: Baad
- Mooring: beed
- Saterland Frisian: Bääd
- West Frisian: bêd
- North Frisian:
- Old Saxon: bed, beddi
- Middle Low German: bedde
- Low German: Bett
- Dutch Low Saxon: bedde
- German Low German: Bedd
- Plautdietsch: Bad, Bed
- → Icelandic: beddi
- Low German: Bett
- Middle Low German: bedde
- 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
- → Galibi Carib: bedi
- Limburgish: bèd
- → French: bedde (“matress”) (dialectal)
- Dutch: bed
- Middle Dutch: bedde
- 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
- → Danish: bed
- Luxembourgish: Bett
- Rhine Franconian:
- Pennsylvania German: Bett
- Vilamovian: bet
- Alemannic German: Bett
- Middle High German: bette, bete, bet
- Old English: bedd, bed, bædd
- Old Norse: beðr m (“bolster, bedding”)
- Icelandic: beður m, beð n
- Faroese: beður m, beð n
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Nynorsk: bedd
- Old Swedish: *bädh, bädhil
- Swedish: bädd c
- → Finnish: peti
- Swedish: bädd c
- Gothic: 𐌱𐌰𐌳𐌹 (badi)
- → Proto-Finnic: *patja (“pillow, mattress”) (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- de Vaan, Michiel (2014), “West Germanic *þþ and *þm in Dutch”, in Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik, volume 72, pages 8-9
References
- 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
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*badja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 46