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This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Univerbation of *a + *by.
Particle
*aby[1][2]
- as long as
Conjunction
*aby[1][2]
- so that, in order to
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: абꙑ (aby)
- Old Ruthenian: абы (aby)
- Belarusian: абы (aby)
- Ukrainian: аби́ (abý)
- Russian: абы́ (abý), а́бы (áby)
- Old Novgorodian: абꙑ (aby)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic script: абꙑ (aby)
- West Slavic:
- Kashubian: abë
- Old Czech: aby
- Old Polish: aby
- Slovak: aby
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: aby
- Upper Sorbian: aby
Further reading
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1974), “aby”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volume 1 (a – bьzděti), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 148
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*a by”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 35