abie
English edit
Verb edit
abie
- Obsolete form of aby.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 543:
- But patience perforce he muſt abie, / What fortune and his fate on him will lay, / Fond is the feare, that findes no remedie;
- c. 1592, attributed to Thomas Kyd, “The Tragedy of Soliman and Preseda.”, in The Origin of the English Drama, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, published 1773, page 275:
- With cunning wordes tempted by chaſtity? / Thou ſhalt abie for both your treacheries.
- 1600, VVilliam Shakeſpeare [i.e. William Shakespeare], A Midſommer nights dreame. […], […] Iames Roberts, page 47:
- For if thou doſt intend / Neuer ſo little ſhew of loue to her, / Thou ſhalt abie it.
Karelian edit
| North Karelian (Viena) |
apie |
|---|---|
| South Karelian (Tver) |
abie |
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old East Slavic обида (obida). Cognates include Finnish apea and Veps abid.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
abie (genitive abien, partitive abieda)
Adjective edit
abie (genitive abien, partitive abieda, comparative abiembi, superlative abein)
Declension edit
| Tver Karelian declension of abie (type 6/pimie, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | abie | abiet | |
| genitive | abien | abein | |
| partitive | abieda | abeida | |
| illative | abieh | abeih | |
| inessive | abiešša | abeissa | |
| elative | abiešta | abeista | |
| adessive | abiella | abeilla | |
| ablative | abielda | abeilda | |
| translative | abiekši | abeiksi | |
| essive | abiena | abeina | |
| comitative | abienke | abeinke | |
| abessive | abietta | abeitta | |
| Possessive forms of abie | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1st person | abieni | |
| 2nd person | abieš | |
| 3rd person | abieh | |
| *) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses. | ||