Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/by

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

Originally third-person singular aorist of *byti.

Conjuction edit

*by^[1]

Introduces a clause of aim; to, so that, in order to
Introduces a clarifying clause; to

Descendants edit

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: бꙑ (by)
  - Old Ruthenian: бы (by)
    - Ukrainian: (dialectal) би (by)
  - Russian: бы (by)
- Old Novgorodian: бꙑ (by)
South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Latin script: bi
  
  Cyrillic script: би
- Slovene: bi
West Slavic:
- Kashubian: bë
- Old Czech: by
  - Czech: by
- Old Polish: by
  - Polish: by
  - Silesian: by
- Slovak: (poetic) by
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: by
  - Upper Sorbian: by

References edit

^ Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1974), “by”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volume 1 (a – bьzděti), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 471

Further reading edit

Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “by”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN, page 48
Králik, Ľubor (2016), “by”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 89
Snoj, Marko (2016), “bi”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si

[1] Sławski, Franciszek, editor (1974), “by”, in Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] (in Polish), volume 1 (a – bьzděti), Wrocław: Ossolineum, page 471

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