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Where does “seabed” come from?

Seabed comes from English sea and Middle English bed, which derives from Old English bedd, from Latin sedes meaning seat, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European bʰedʰ- and sed- meaning to sit.

seabed (English): The floor or bottom of the sea or ocean

Definitions

  1. The floor or bottom of the sea or ocean

Ancestry of “seabed”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishbedA piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on...
2Middle Englishbed—
3Old Englishbeddbed
4Proto-West Germanicbadibed
5Persianبدی—
6Persianبدbad; not good; evil; poorly, badly
7Middle Persian𐭯𐭥𐭭to; at; in
8Proto-Iranianpati-against, toward; lord
9Proto-Iranian*rādi-—
10Proto-Iranian*rād-—
11Proto-Indo-IranianHraHdʰ-—
12Proto-Indo-EuropeanHreh₁dʰ-to think; to arrange; to succeed, accomplish
13Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂reh₁-to think, reason; to arrange
14Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂er-to fit, to fix, to put together
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