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Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *gabaddjō. Cognate with Old Frisian bedda and Old Saxon gibeddio. Equivalent to ġe- + bedd + -a.
Pronunciation
Noun
ġebedda m
- someone who lies in bed with someone else: bedfellow
- 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.
- consort
Declension
Weak:
Coordinate terms
References
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.