bỳti

bỳti Grammatical information: v. Accent paradigm: a \{1\} Proto-Slavic meaning: `be'

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Old Church Slavic:

byti `be' [verb], bǫdǫ [1sg]

Russian:

byt' `be' [verb], búdu [1sg]

Czech:

býti `be' [verb], budu [1sg]

Slovak:

byt' `be' [verb], budem [1sg]

Polish:

być `be' [verb], będę [1sg]

Serbo-Croatian:

bȉti `be' [verb];

Čak. bȉti (Vrgada) `be' [verb];

Čak. bȉti (Orbanići) `be' [verb]

Slovene:

bíti `be' [verb]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: bʔutei

Lithuanian:

bū́ti `be' [verb]

Latvian:

bût `be' [verb]

Indo-European reconstruction: bʰHu-

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Other cognates:

Skt. bhávati `be, become';

Gk. φύομαι `grow, become' [verb];

OLat. fūī [verb] `be' [1sgpf];

OIr. buith `being' [f]

Notes:

\{1\} The AP refers to the (perfective) present *bǫdǫ. The present forms that derive from PIE *h₁es- are discussed separately.