Etymology

bedo

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Today it means: To shut; make or put to. Full definition →

Middle English bedon ← Old English bedōn
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited frombedōn“to shut”
  2. Middle English · inherited frombedon
  3. English todaybedo

From Middle English bedon, from Old English bedōn (“to shut”), equivalent to be- + do.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishbedon all →

bedone

Old Englishbedōn all →

bedone

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.