Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/bī
Proto-West Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *bi.
Preposition
edit*bī[1]
- by, at [with accusative or dative]
- near, around [with accusative or dative]
Descendants
editReferences
edit- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 65: “PWGmc *bi ~ *bī”