Etymology

featherbed

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Today it means: A mattress stuffed with feathers. Full definition →

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

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

From feather + bed.

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