Etymograph

English

lazy-bed

From lazy + bed.

Formed from lazy + bed

Middle Low German lasich ‘slack, feeble, lazy’

English lazy

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 A ridge of ground generally used for growing potatoes and sometimes also for raising corn, the seed being laid on the surface and covered with earth dug out of trenches along both sides.

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

Etymograph / lazy-bed