aby
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aby
From Middle English abyen, abien, abiggen, from Old English ābyċġan (“to buy; pay for; buy off; requite; recompense; redeem; perform; execute”), from Proto-Germanic *uzbugjaną, equivalent to a- + buy. Cognate with Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌱𐌿𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (usbugjan).[1] Not related to abide.
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aby (simple past and past participle abought, no other forms attested in Modern English)
The verb is almost always encountered with a modal verb, as in shall aby, could aby, etc. The gerund abuying of the alternative spelling abuy is found in one text; see that entry.
Inherited from Old Czech aby, from Proto-Slavic *aby. By surface analysis, univerbation of a + by.
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Univerbation of až (“that”) + by (“would”)
aby (defective, invariable)
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *aby. By surface analysis, univerbation of a + by.
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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *aby. By surface analysis, univerbation of a + by. First attested in the 14th century.
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Inherited from Old Polish aby. By surface analysis, univerbation of a + by.
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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), aby is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 110 times in scientific texts, 81 times in news, 113 times in essays, 89 times in fiction, and 37 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 430 times, making it the 108th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
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Inherited from Old Polish aby. By surface analysis, univerbation of a + by.
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