Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bo

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 edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *ba, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰo. According to ЭССЯ it is a prosodic variant of *ba.

Conjunction edit

*bo[1][2]

  1. for

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: бо (bo)
      • Old Ruthenian: бо (bo)
        • Belarusian: бо (bo)
        • Carpathian Rusyn: бо (bo)
        • Ukrainian: бо (bo)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: бо (bo)
      Glagolitic: ⰱⱁ (bo)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: бо
      Latin script: bo
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: bo
      • Czech: bo (dialectal)
    • Kashubian:
    • Old Polish: bo
      • Masurian: bo
      • Polish: bo
      • Silesian: bo
    • Slovak: bo
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: bo
      • Lower Sorbian: bo

Further reading edit

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “бо”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*bo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 141
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*a bo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 34
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*i ba, *i bo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 167

References edit

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*bo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 49:conj. ‘for’
  2. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “bo”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:(encl.) fordi (PR 145)