English

surbed

From sur- + bed.

Formed from sur- + bed

Proto-Indo-European *upér ‘over’

Proto-Italic *super ‘above’

Latin super ‘[of place] above’

English sur-

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

verb To set (a stone) edgewise, in a position different from that which it had in the quarry.

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