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.

Conjunction

*bo

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