𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎹

Old Persian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *Habʰi (compare Sanskrit अभि (abhí, “towards, over, upon”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“round about, around”) (compare Latin ambi-, Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí, “for, about, around”), Old High German umbi (“around”), Old Irish imb (“around”)).

Prefix

𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎹 (abiy)[1]

  1. towards
  2. against
  3. upon

Preposition

𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎹 (abiy)

  1. towards
  2. against
  3. upon

References
  1. Gindro, S.; Scarlata, S.; Widmer, P. (2013), “Old Persian Corpus”, in TITUS: Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien‎, 11
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