Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/badi

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.

From Proto-Germanic *badją.

*badi n^[1]

1. plot of ground, flowerbed
2. bed

• *baddjōn

• Old English: bedd, bed, bædd
  • Middle English: bedde, bed
    • English: bed
    • Scots: bede, bed
• Old Frisian: bedd
  • North Frisian:

    Föhr-Amrum: baad

    Helgoland: Baad

    Mooring: beed

  • Saterland Frisian: Bääd
  • West Frisian: bêd
• Old Saxon: bed, bedd, beddi
  • Middle Low German: bedde
    • Low German: Bett
      • Dutch Low Saxon: bedde
      • German Low German: Bedd
        • Plautdietsch: Bad, Bed
    • → Icelandic: 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”)
      • → Danish: bed
        • Norwegian Bokmål: bed
    • Luxembourgish: Bett
    • Rhine Franconian:

      Pennsylvania German: Bett

    • Vilamovian: bet