Etymology

interbed

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Today it means: To interleave between other beds or strata having different characteristics Full definition →

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

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁n̥tér
  3. Proto-Italic*n̥ter
  4. Latininter
  5. Latininter-
  6. Englishinter-
  7. Proto-Germanic*badją
  8. Proto-West Germanic*badi
  9. Old Englishbedd
  10. Middle Englishbed
  11. Englishbed
  12. English todayinterbed

From inter- + bed.

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