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.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *badją.

Noun

*badi n

1. plot of ground, flowerbed
2. bed

Inflection

Neuter ja-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*badi
Genitive	*baddjas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*badi	*baddju
Accusative	*badi	*baddju
Genitive	*baddjas	*baddjō
Dative	*baddjē	*baddjum
Instrumental	*baddju	*baddjum

Derived terms

• *baddjōn

Descendants

• 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