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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bo

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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

Etymology

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

Conjunction

*bo [1][2]

  1. for

Derived terms

  • *a bo
  • *i bo

Descendants

  • East Slavic: бо (bo)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: бо (bo)
      Glagolitic: ⰱⱁ (bo)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: бо
      Latin: bo
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: bo
    • Polish: bo
    • Slovak: bo
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: bo
      • Lower Sorbian: bo

Further reading

References

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