Where does “ted” come from?
Ted comes from Old English teddan, from Proto-Germanic tadjaną, from Proto-Indo-European dāy-, meaning to spread or scatter.
ted (English): A teddy boy; To spread hay for drying
Definitions
- A teddy boy; To spread hay for drying
Ancestry of “ted”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old English | teddan | — |
| 2 | Proto-West Germanic | *taddjan | to strew, scatter |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | tadjaną | To strew, to scatter; To dung, to manure |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | dāy- | to divide, split, section, part, separate; to... |