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

Etymology

  • From Proto-Balto-Slavic *ba, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰo. According to ЭССЯ it is a prosodic variant of *ba.[1]

    Conjunction

    *bo[1][2]

    1. for

    Derived terms

    • *a bo
    • *i bo

    Descendants

    • 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)
      • Old Polish: bo
        • Polish: bo
        • Silesian: bo
      • Pomeranian:
      • Old Slovak: bo
        • Pannonian Rusyn: бо (bo)
        • Slovak: bo
      • Sorbian:
        • Lower Sorbian: bo
        • Upper Sorbian: bo

    Further reading

    • 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

    1. 1.0 1.1 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[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:(encl.) fordi (PR 145)