bedde
English
Noun
bedde (plural beddes)
- Obsolete spelling of bed
Central Franconian
Alternative forms
- bäde, beade (Moselle Franconian)
Etymology
From Old High German bedōn, northern variant of betōn. Cognate to German beten (“to pray”). The verb at hand in German bitten (“to ask, beg”) does not exist in Central Franconian.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɛdə/
Verb
bedde (third-person singular present bett, past participle jebett or jebedde)
- (Ripuarian, transitive or intransitive, with öm) to ask for something; to beg
- Woröm häs de net jemaht, wo ich dich dröm jebett hatt?
- Why haven’t you done what I’d asked you for?
- Wat enem andere jehürt, ka’ mer sich net esu nemme, do moss mer dröm bedde!
- One can’t just take what’s someone else’s, one must ask for it.
- (Ripuarian, intransitive or transitive) to pray
- Dot Ühr vür em Äße bedde?
- Do you pray before meals?
- Ich hann en Kääz opjestallt on ene Rusekranz jebett.
- I’ve lit a candle and prayed a rosary.
Usage notes
- The original past participle is weak jebett. The strong form jebedde is a variant formed on the model of German gebeten.
Derived terms
- beddele
Dutch Low Saxon
Noun
bedde n (plural bedden)
- bed
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch bedde, from Proto-Germanic *badją.
Noun
bedde n
- bed
- bedding, mattress, pillow
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- 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)
Further reading
- “bedde”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “bedde”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Norwegian Nynorsk
Participle
bedde
- definite singular of bedd
- plural of bedd
Verb
bedde
- (highly nonstandard form) past tense of be
- Synonym: bad (standard)
Swedish
Verb
bedde
- (nonstandard) past tense of be.
- Synonym: bad (standard)