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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/aby

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.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

Univerbation of *a +‎ *by.

Particle

as long as

Conjunction

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
  - Czech: aby
- Old Polish: aby
  - Masurian: abi
  - Polish: aby
  - Silesian: aby
- Slovak: aby
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: aby
  - Upper Sorbian: aby

Further reading

Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1974), “aby”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volumes 1 (a – bьzděti), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 148
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

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