убо

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Old East Slavic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈubɔ/→/ˈubɔ/→/ˈubɔ/

(ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈubɔ/
(ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈubɔ/
(ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈubɔ/

Hyphenation: у‧бо

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 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), volume 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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