Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bez
Proto-SlavicEdit
EtymologyEdit
Continues Proto-Balto-Slavic *beź, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰe (“instrumental particle”) + Proto-Indo-European *-ǵʰs (“out”). Cognate with Lithuanian bè, Latvian bez, Old Prussian bhe, and likely Sanskrit बहिस् (bahís, “outside”). The first element is probably the same as that in Proto-Slavic *bo (“for”), Lithuanian bà (“really”), Ancient Greek φή (phḗ, “like, as”)[1], Avestan 𐬠𐬁 (bā, “indeed”).
PrepositionEdit
DescendantsEdit
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further readingEdit
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*bez”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), volume 2: (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 7
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “φή”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1565
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008), “*bez(ъ)”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 38: “prep. ‘without’”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001), “bez”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “(prep. and prefix) (PR 146)”