bêd

Meaning

bed

Gender

Neuter

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɛːt/

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *badją (“plot, grave, resting-place, bed”). Cognate with North Frisian baad, beed (“bed”), English bed, Low German Bedd, Dutch bed (“bed”), German Bett (“bed”), Swedish bädd (“bed”), Icelandic beður (“bed”).

Sentences

Noch altyd giet er pas nei trijen op bêd .

He still only goes to bed after three.

Doe't er thúskaam fûn er syn frou noch op bêd .

When he came home he found his wife still in bed.

Syn heit stjoerde him sonder iten op bêd .

His father sent him to bed without food.