köken: From Middle High German bette, bete, bet, from Old High German betti, beti (“bed, flower-bed”), from Proto-West Germanic *badi, from Proto-Germanic *badją. Doublet of Bett (“bed for sleeping”). The West Germanic noun had simple -d- in the nominative/accusative and geminated -dd- in the oblique cases. This alternation was generally levelled towards the geminate, but variants with a simple…
köken: Akin to the synonymous Tat lak, Judeo-Tat lok, Karabakh Armenian լաք (lakʻ). Ultimately perhaps from Persian لاک (lâk, “trough, wooden vessel”), the enclosed garden bed being perceived as a sort of trough.
köken: From German Beet (“bed for plants”), originally the same word as Bett (“bed for sleeping”), from Proto-Germanic *badją, cognate with English bed and Swedish bädd.
only in the expression: gå nogen i bedene "poach on someone's preserves"