Etymology

bedmate

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Today it means: A person with whom one shares a bed. Full definition →

English mate ← Middle English mate ← Middle Low German mate
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*badją
  2. Proto-West Germanic*badi
  3. Old Englishbedd
  4. Middle Englishbed
  5. Englishbed
  6. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  7. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  8. Proto-Germanic*ga-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*meh₂d-
  10. Proto-Germanic*matiz
  11. Proto-Germanic*matjô
  12. Proto-West Germanic*gamatjô
  13. Old Saxongimato
  14. Middle Low Germanmate
  15. Middle Englishmate
  16. Englishmate
  17. English todaybedmate

From bed + -mate.

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