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English
Verb
abie
- Obsolete form of aby.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 543:But patience perforce he muſt abie, / What fortune and his fate on him will lay, / Fond is the feare, that findes no remedie;
c. 1592, attributed to Thomas Kyd, “The Tragedy of Soliman and Preseda.”, in The Origin of the English Drama, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1773, page 275:With cunning wordes tempted by chaſtity? / Thou ſhalt abie for both your treacheries.
Karelian
Regional variants of abie
North Karelian
(Viena)
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apie
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South Karelian
(Tver)
|
abie
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Etymology
Borrowed from Old East Slavic обида (obida). Cognates include Finnish apea and Veps abid.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑbie̯/
- Hyphenation: a‧bie
Noun
abie (genitive abien, partitive abieda)
- (South Karelian) offence, insult
Adjective
abie (genitive abien, partitive abieda, comparative abiembi, superlative abein)
- (South Karelian) insulting, offensive
Declension
| Possessive forms of abie
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| 1st person
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abieni
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| 2nd person
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abieš
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| 3rd person
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abieh
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| *) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.
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References
- A. V. Punzhina (1994) “abie”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN