Etymology

bedrel

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Today it means: A bedridden person; a helpless cripple. Full definition →

English bed ← Middle English bed ← Old English bedd
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*badją
  2. Proto-West Germanic*badi
  3. Old Englishbedd
  4. Middle Englishbed
  5. Englishbed
  6. English todaybedrel

From bed + -rel.

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