убо

Old East Slavic

Etymology

Univerbation of у (u, at) + бо (bo, for). Akin to Old Church Slavonic оубо (ubo).

Pronunciation

  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ˈubɔ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ˈubɔ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈubɔ/
  • Hyphenation: у‧бо

Conjunction

убо (ubo)

  1. 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;
  2. 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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