убо
Old East Slavic
Etymology
Univerbation of у (u, “at”) + бо (bo, “for”). Akin to Old Church Slavonic оубо (ubo).
Pronunciation
Conjunction
убо (ubo)
- so, thus
- 1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik, page 3:
- и пораꙁоумѣваꙗ оубо истиньнѣ писаниꙗ правимъ ѥсть ими·
- i porazuměvaja ubo istinĭně pisanija pravimŭ jestĭ imi·
- And so understanding the writings to [their] truth he is governed by them;
- in that case
Descendants
- Old Ruthenian: ꙋ́бо (úbo)
References
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “ꙋбо”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments] (in Russian), volumes 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1112
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