English
scanbed
From scan + bed.
Proto-Indo-European *skend- ‘to jump, dart, climb, scale, scan’
Proto-Italic *skandō
Latin scandō ‘to climb, rise, mount’
Middle English scanden ‘to scan verse’
Middle English scanne ‘to mark off verse to show metrical structure’
English scan
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 flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / scanbed