Etymograph

English

keybed

From key + bed.

A compound of key + bed

Proto-West Germanic *kaiju

Old English cǣġ ‘key’

Middle English keye ‘a key’

English key

Proto-Germanic *badją ‘resting-place’

Proto-West Germanic *badi ‘plot of ground’

Old English bedd

Middle English bed ‘a bed’

English bed

Today it means

noun The support structure of the key of a piano or other keyboard instrument upon which the key rests when fully depressed.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / keybed