*badą

Uncertain. Formally compatible with Proto-Indo-European *bʰodʰ-o-m, from the disputed root *bʰedʰ-. Kroonen reconstructs the underlying Germanic noun *bada- from Norwegian bad and East Danish bad and derives *badōjan- (here *badōną) from it (Kroonen 2013: 47). The Indo-Iranian comparanda instead point to a long-vowel base: Sanskrit बाधते (bā́dhate) and Younger Avestan 𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬌-𐬠𐬁𐬜𐬀 (auui-bāδa) are analyzed as reflecting *bʰeh₁dʰ- or *bʰēdʰ-, with the wider relationship uncertain (Cheung 2007: 20–21, s.v. *bād; Mayrhofer 1996: 222; Rix et al. 2001: 68). Lithuanian bėdà and Proto-Slavic bě̄dà are likewise of disputed origin (Borissoff 2021: 30–31; Derksen 2015: 85; Smoczyński 2018: 106), while Lithuanian bãdas may instead derive from badýti and belong to *bʰedʰh₂- (Derksen 2015: 75–76).