different between stand vs bed

English

Etymology

From Middle English standen, from Old English standan (“to stand, occupy a place, be valid, stand good, be, exist, take place, consist, be fixed, remain undisturbed, stand still, cease to move, remain without motion, stop, maintain one’s position, not yield to pressure, reside, abide, continue, remain, not to fall, be upheld”), from Proto-Germanic *standan? (“to stand”), from Pre-Germanic *sth?-n-t-´, an innovative extended n-infixed form of Proto-Indo-European *steh?-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stænd/
• (/æ/ tensing) IPA^(key): [ste?nd]
• Rhymes: -ænd

Verb

stand (third-person singular simple present stands, present participle standing, simple past stood, past participle stood or (obsolete) standen or (nonstandard) stand)

1. (heading) To position or be positioned physically.
   1. (intransitive, copulative) To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
   2. (intransitive) To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.

   3. (intransitive, copulative) To remain motionless.
      • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Matthew 2:9,^[1]

        The star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.

      • Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

   4. (intransitive) To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.
      • He seized the gun which always stood in a corner of his bedroom […].

   5. (transitive) To place in an upright or standing position.
   6. (intransitive) To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated.
      • 1774, Edward Long, The History of Jamaica. Or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of that Island, volume 2, book 2, chapter 7, 6:

        The chapel ?tands on the South ?ide of the ?quare, near the governor’s hou?e.

      • 2017 October 2, "Las Vegas shooting: At least 58 dead at Mandalay Bay Hotel", in bbc.com, BBC:

        Las Vegas police say the number of people injured now stands at 515.

   7. (intransitive) To measure when erect on the feet.
      • 1855, Alfred Tennyson, Maud, XIII, 1. in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, p. 44,^[2]

        His face, as I grant, in spite of spite, / Has a broad-blown comeliness, red and white, / And six feet two, as I think, he stands;

   8. (intransitive) (of tears) To be present, to have welled up (in the eyes).
      • c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act V, Scene 6,^[3]

        many an orphan’s water-standing eye

      • 1651, Francis Bacon, A True and Historical Relation of the Poysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury, London: John Benson & John Playford, “Sir Jervas his Confession,” p. 71,^[4]

        now my heart beginneth to melt within me being wounded (with that the tears stood in his eyes) to see the faces of some here present, whom J most earnestly love, and now must depart from with shame […]

      • 1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, London: W. Chetwood & T. Edling, p. 222,^[5]

        [he] pull’d me up again, and then giving me two or three Kisses again, thank’d me for my kind yielding to him; and was so overcome with the Satisfaction and Joy of it, that I saw Tears stand in his Eyes.

      • 1844, Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman & Hall, Chapter 32, p. 380,^[6]

        He takes me half-price to the play, to an extent which I sometimes fear is beyond his means; and I see the tears a standing in his eyes during the whole performance […]

2. (heading) To position or be positioned mentally.
   1. (intransitive, followed by to + infinitive) To be positioned to gain or lose.

   2. (transitive, negative) To tolerate.
   3. (intransitive, copulative) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
      • February 2, 1712, Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 291

        readers by whose judgment I would stand or fall

   4. (intransitive, copulative) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.

      • The king granted the Jews […] to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life.

      • July 29, 1660, Robert South, sermon preached at St. Mary's Church in Oxon

        the standing pattern of their imitation

   5. (intransitive, copulative, obsolete) To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.

      • sacrifices […] which stood only in meats and drinks

      • Accomplish what your signs foreshow; / I stand resigned, and am prepared to go.
3. (heading) To position or be positioned socially.
   1. (intransitive, cricket) To act as an umpire.
   2. (transitive) To undergo; withstand; hold up.

      • Love stood the siege.

      • Bid him disband his legions, […] / And stand the judgment of a Roman senate.
   3. (intransitive, Britain) To seek election.
      • 1678, Izaak Walton, The Life of Robert Sanderson

        He stood to be elected one of the proctors of the university.

   4. (intransitive) To be valid.

   5. (transitive) To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.
      • 1957, Matt Christopher, Basketball Sparkplug, Ch.7:

        "Kim, Jack, and I will stand you guys," Jimmie Burdette said. ¶ "We'll smear you!" laughed Ron.

      • c. 1973, R. J. Childerhose, Hockey Fever in Goganne Falls, p.95:

        The game stopped while sides were sorted out. Andy did the sorting. "Okay," he said. "Jimmy is coming out. He and Gaston and Ike and me will stand you guys."

      • 1978, Louis Sachar, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Ch.21:

        "Hey, Louis," Dameon shouted. "Do you want to play kickball?" ¶ ""All right," said Louis. "Ron and I will both play." […] ¶ "Ron and I will stand everybody!" Louis announced.

   6. (transitive) To cover the expense of; to pay for.
   7. (intransitive) To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation.

   8. (intransitive) To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
      • c. 1619, Philip Massinger and Nathan Field, The Fatal Dowry

        Doubt me not; by heaven, I will do nothing / But what may stand with honour.

   9. (intransitive) To appear in court.

      (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)

4. (intransitive, nautical) Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).
   • 1630, John Smith, True Travels, in Kupperman 1988, p.40:

     To repaire his defects, hee stood for the coast of Calabria, but hearing there was six or seven Galleyes at Mesina hee departed thence for Malta […].

5. (intransitive, copulative) To remain without ruin or injury.
   • 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy

     My mind on its own centre stands unmov'd.
6. (card games) To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.

Conjugation

Usage notes

• In older works, standen is found as a past participle of this verb; it is now archaic. The forms stooden and stand may also be found in dialectal speech; these are nonstandard.
• (tolerate): This is almost always found in a negative form such as can’t stand, or No-one can stand… In this sense it is a catenative verb that takes the gerund -ing or infinitive to.... See Appendix:English catenative verbs.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

stand (plural stands)

1. The act of standing.
   • October 2, 1712, Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 499

     I took my stand upon an eminence […] to look into their several ladings.

2. A defensive position or effort.

3. A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.

4. A period of performance in a given location or venue.

5. A device to hold something upright or aloft.

   • There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

6. The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.

7. A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.

8. (forestry) A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit.
9. A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, “Of Truth”, Essays

     One of the later school of the Grecians, examineth the matter, and is at a stand, to think what should be in it, that men should love lies; where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie’s sake.

   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I.168:

     Antonia's patience now was at a stand—
     "Come, come, 't is no time now for fooling there,"
     She whispered […]

10. A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
11. A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.

12. (US, dated) The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.

13. (sports) Grandstand. (often in the plural)
14. (cricket) A partnership.
15. (military, plural often stand) A single set, as of arms.
    • 1927, Herbert Asbury, The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld, Paragon House (1990), ?ISBN, p.170:

      The police and troops captured eleven thousand stand of arms, including muskets and pistols, together with several thousand bludgeons and other weapons.

16. (obsolete) Rank; post; station; standing.

    • Father, since your fortune did attain
      So high a stand, I mean not to descend.

17. (dated) A state of perplexity or embarrassment.

18. A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree.
19. (obsolete) A weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.
20. A location or position where one may stand.
    • c. 1604 Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare

      Come, I have found you out a stand most fit, / Where you may have such vantage on the duke, / He shall not pass you.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Catalan: estand
• ? Italian: stand
• ? Portuguese: estande
• ? Spanish: estand

Translations

Related terms

• stance
• stanza

Anagrams

• Dants, Sandt, dasn't, tdnas

Danish

Etymology

From the verb stande, influenced by Middle Low German stant, German Stand and (in the sense "booth") English stand.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sd?an?]

Noun

stand c (singular definite standen, plural indefinite stænder)

1. position, social status, station
2. class, rank
3. occupation, trade, profession
4. estate

Inflection

Noun

stand c (singular definite standen, plural indefinite stande)

1. stand (device to hold something upright or aloft)
2. stand (small building or booth)
3. (uncountable) condition, repair

Inflection

Related terms

• godt i stand
• i stand til

References

• “stand” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *stand, from Proto-Germanic *standaz. Related to staan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?nt/
• Hyphenation: stand
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

stand m (plural standen, diminutive standje n)

1. posture, position, bearing
2. rank, standing, station; class
3. score (of a game, match)

Synonyms

• (posture): houding
• (rank): rang, klasse
• (score): score

Derived terms

• adelstand
• burgerstand
• slaapstand
• speelstand
• standenmaatschappij
• standje
• waterstand

Etymology 2

From English stand.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?nt/
• Hyphenation: stand

Noun

stand m (plural stands, diminutive standje n)

1. stand (small building or booth)

Synonyms

• kraam

Anagrams

• danst

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??d/

Noun

stand m (plural stands)

1. stand

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tant/
• Rhymes: -ant

Verb

stand

1. first/third-person singular preterite of stehen

Gothic

Romanization

stand

1. Romanization of ????????????????????

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Stand.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??t?nd]
• Hyphenation: stand
• Rhymes: -?nd

Noun

stand

1. stand, booth, stall, kiosk (a small enclosed structure, often freestanding, open on one side or with a window, used as a booth to sell newspapers, cigarettes, etc., on the street or in a market)

   Synonym: bódé

Declension

References

Further reading

• stand in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Etymology

From English stand.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?nd/

Noun

stand m (invariable)

1. stand, booth, stall, pavilion (at a fair)
2. stand, gallery (at a sporting event)
3. stand, case (in a store, supermarket)
4. stall (at a shooting range)

Synonyms

• (at a fair, shooting range): padiglione

Derived terms

• standista

Further reading

• stand in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From the old verb stande (replaced by stå), and English stand (sense 3)

Noun

stand m (definite singular standen, indefinite plural stander, definite plural standene)

1. condition, order, state
2. height, level, reading
3. a stand (e.g. at an exhibition)

Derived terms

• husstand
• i stand til
• standpunkt
• vannstand

References

• “stand” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From the old verb stande (replaced by stå).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?nd/, /st?n?/ (examples of pronunciation)

Noun

stand m (definite singular standen, indefinite plural standar, definite plural standane)

1. condition, order, state
2. height, level, reading

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

From German Stand. Doublet of Etymology 1.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?nd/, /st?n?/ (examples of pronunciation)

Noun

stand m (definite singular standen, indefinite plural stender, definite plural stendene)

1. (historical) an estate (social class)

Derived terms

Etymology 3

From English stand. Doublet of Etymology 1.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stænd/, /stæn?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

stand m (definite singular standen, indefinite plural standar, definite plural standane)

1. a stand (e.g. at an exhibition)

References

• “stand” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *standaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?nd/

Noun

stand m

1. (rare) delay

Declension

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *standaz, whence also Old English stand.

Noun

stand m

1. stand (clarification of this definition is needed)

Portuguese

Noun

stand m (plural stands)

1. Alternative form of estande

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?stand/, [?st?ãn?d?]

• IPA^(key): /es?tand/, [es?t?ãn?d?]

Noun

stand m (plural stands)

1. stand (enclosed structure in the street)

English

Etymology

From Middle English bed, bedde, from Old English bedd (“bed, couch, resting-place; garden-bed, plot”), from Proto-Germanic *badj? (“plot, grave, resting-place, bed”), perhaps (if originally "dug sleeping-place") from Proto-Indo-European *b?ed?- (“to dig”). Cognate with Scots bed, bede (“bed”), North Frisian baad, beed (“bed”), West Frisian bêd (“bed”), Low German Bedd, Dutch bed (“bed”), German Bett (“bed”), Danish bed, Swedish bädd (“bed”), Icelandic beður (“bed”), and (through Proto-Indo-European, if the above etymology is correct) with Ancient Greek ??????? (bothuros, “pit”), Latin fossa (“ditch”), Latvian bedre (“hole”), Welsh bedd (“grave”), Breton bez (“grave”); and probably also Russian ?????? (bodat?, “to butt, to gore”).

The traditional etymology as a derivation from the Proto-Indo-European verb for 'to dig' has been doubted, arguing that there are (allegedly) few, if any, cultures known to dig out beds, rather than to build "pads". However, what the Germanic word originally referred to is not known with precision, and it notably has the additional meaning "flower-bed, plot", which is preserved in English and several other modern Germanic languages, but present in older stages as well. Additionally, the term may have originally been used in the sense of a "burial plot" for laying those who were asleep in death, and from there extended also to symbolise a place where one slept in general (In Modern German, two separate words exist, Bett being the normal term, the rare variant Beet having been adopted for “flower-bed”). Perhaps the word originally referred to dug sleeping-places of animals, compare (with the inverse semantic development) lair from Old English le?er (“couch, bed”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /b?d/
• (AAVE, some speakers) IPA^(key): [be?]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /bed/
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

bed (plural beds)

1. A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
   1. A prepared spot in which to spend the night.

   2. (usually after a preposition) One's place of sleep or rest.

   3. (uncountable, usually after a preposition) Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.

   4. (uncountable, usually after a preposition) The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.

   5. (uncountable) Time spent in a bed.
   6. (figuratively) Marriage.

      • George, the eldest son of his second bed.

   7. (figuratively, uncountable) Sexual activity.

2. A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
   1. The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river. [from later 16^thc.]

   2. An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
      • 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 18, [1]

        I knew that there were kelp beds and reefs which could rip the bottoms from boats down in Skedans Bay.

   3. A garden plot.

      • Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

   4. A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.

   5. The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
   7. The platform of a truck, trailer, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.

      Synonym: tray

   8. A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
   9. (printing, dated) The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
   10. (computing) The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
   11. A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
   12. (darts) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
   13. (trampoline) The taut surface of a trampoline.
3. (heading) A layer or surface.
   1. A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
   2. (geology) The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.

      Synonyms: layer, stratum

   3. (masonry) The horizontal surface of a building stone.

   4. (masonry) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.

      (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

   5. (masonry) A course of stone or brick in a wall.

Usage notes

Sense 1. To prepare a bed is usually to "make" the bed, or (US, Southern) to "spread" the bed, the verb spread probably having been developed from bedspread.Like many nouns denoting places where people spend time, bed requires no article after certain prepositions: hence in bed (“lying in a bed”), go to bed (“get into a bed”), and so on. The forms in a bed, etc. do exist, but tend to imply mere presence in the bed, without it being for the purpose of sleep.

See also Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take

Derived terms

Descendants

• Chichewa: bedi
• Chuukese: pet
• Japanese: ??? (beddo)

Translations

See bed/translations § Noun.

Verb

bed (third-person singular simple present beds, present participle bedding, simple past and past participle bedded)

1. Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
   1. (intransitive) To go to bed.
   2. (transitive) To place in a bed.

      • For she was not only publicly contracted, but stated as a bride, and solemnly bedded, and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador with letters of procuration

   3. To put oneself to sleep. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
   4. (transitive) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
   5. (transitive, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse with. [from early 14th c.]

      Synonyms: coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

      • 1730, William Forbes, The Institutes of the Law of Scotland (page 121)

        And he who lies with another Man's Wife after she is married, even before her Husband had bedded with her, is guilty of Adultery, […]

2. Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
   1. (transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
      • 1810/1835, William Wordsworth, Guide to the Lakes

        Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded.
   2. (transitive) To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
   3. (transitive) To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
   4. (transitive) To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
   5. (transitive) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
   6. To settle, as machinery.

Derived terms

• bed down
• embed

Translations

See bed/translations § Verb.

Further reading

• bed on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• BDE, DBE, DEB, Deb, Deb., EBD, Edb., deb

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch bed, from Middle Dutch bedde, from Old Dutch bedde, from Proto-Germanic *badj?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?t/

Noun

bed (plural beddens, diminutive bedjie)

1. bed

   Synonym: kooi

Breton

Alternative forms

• béd (Skolveurieg)

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *b?d, from Proto-Celtic *bitus. Cognates include Welsh byd and Cornish bys.

Noun

bed m (plural bedoù)

1. world
2. universe

Mutation

References

• Ian Press (1986) A grammar of modern Breton, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, ?ISBN, page 322

Danish

Etymology 1

From German Beet (“bed for plants”), originally the same word as Bett (“bed for sleeping”), from Proto-Germanic *badj?, cognate with English bed and Swedish bädd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?eð]

Noun

bed n (singular definite bedet, plural indefinite bede)

1. bed (a garden plot)

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Old Norse beit f (“pasturage”), Old Norse beita f (“bait”), from Proto-Germanic *bait? (“food, bait”), cognate with German Beize (“mordant”) (whence Danish bejdse).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?e?ð], [?b?eð?]

Noun

bed (definitive plural bedene)

1. (obsolete) pasturage

   only in the expression: gå nogen i bedene "poach on someone's preserves"

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?e?ð], [?b?eð?]

Verb

bed

1. past tense of bide

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?e?], (solemnly) IPA^(key): [?b?e?ð], [?b?eð?]

Verb

bed

1. imperative of bede

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bedde, from Old Dutch bedde, from Proto-Germanic *badj?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?t/
• Hyphenation: bed
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

bed n (plural bedden, diminutive bedje n)

1. bed (furniture for sleeping)
2. (garden, agriculture) patch, bed
3. layer, often a substratum
4. bed of a body of water
   • 1950, Willy van der Heide, Drie jongens op een onbewoond eiland, Stenvert.

     Op een gegeven ogenblik stieten ze op een uitgedroogde beekbedding; het bed van de beek was naakte lava.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: bed

Kriol

Etymology 1

From English bird.

Noun

bed

1. bird

Etymology 2

From English bed.

Noun

bed

1. bed

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?d

Adjective

bed

1. bad

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From German Beet

Noun

bed n (definite singular bedet, indefinite plural bed, definite plural beda or bedene)

1. (horticulture) a bed (for plants)

Derived terms

• blomsterbed

Etymology 2

Verb

bed

1. imperative of bede

References

• “bed” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From German Beet.

Noun

bed n (definite singular bedet, indefinite plural bed, definite plural beda)

1. (horticulture) a bed (for plants)

Derived terms

• blomsterbed

Etymology 2

Verb

bed

1. present tense of beda
2. imperative of beda

Etymology 3

From Old Norse beðr.

Noun

bed m (definite singular beden, indefinite plural bedar, definite plural bedane)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by bedd

References

• “bed” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bed/

Noun

bed n

1. Alternative form of bedd

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?eð/

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

·bed

1. third-person singular past subjunctive of at·tá

Alternative forms

• ·beth

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

bed

1. inflection of is:
   1. third-person singular past subjunctive
   2. third-person singular/second-person plural imperative
   3. third-person singular conditional relative

Alternative forms

• bad (3 sg. past subj.; 3 sg. and 2 pl. imperative)

Mutation

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• beddi

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *badj? (“dug sleeping-place”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ed?- (“to dig”). Cognate with Old Frisian bed, Old English bedd, Dutch bed, Old High German betti, Old Norse beðr, Gothic ???????????????? (badi). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek ??????? (bothuros, “pit”), Latin fossa (“ditch”), Latvian bedre (“hole”), Welsh bedd, Breton bez (“grave”).

Noun

bed n

1. bed
   • (Heliand, verse 2309)

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: bedde
  • Low German: Bett
    • Dutch Low Saxon: bedde
    • German Low German: Bedd
      • Plautdietsch: Bad, Bed
  • ? Icelandic: beddi

Swedish

Verb

bed (contracted be)

1. imperative of bedja.

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English bed and German Bett.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bed/

Noun

bed (nominative plural beds)

1. bed

Declension