Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *būanąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_būaną
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Studies. Old English and Germanic Historical Morphology: Paradigmatic Splits. the Evolution of the Verb būja- 'dwell'AurelijusVijūnasHistorische Sprachforschung135283–3082022fuīto be, existbûtto be, existअभूत्to be, become
verbto dwell, resideFrom Proto-Indo-European *bʰúH-e/o-, the root aorist subjunctive of *bʰuH- (‘to be, become, grow, appear’) Vijūnas 2022. Variant reconstructions are *bōaną and *bōw(w)aną. Likely originally a strong verb that shifted to the weak paradigm (it was still a strong verb in Old Norse with traces of strong patterns in several daughter languages; it seems unlikely that all of these languages would independently reformulate the verb partially or fully to a strong paradigm from a week one). Cognates are Latvian bût (‘to be, exist’), Sanskrit अभूत् (ábhūt, aorist of, ‘to be, become’), and Latin fuī(1st person singular perfect active indicative of sum, ‘to be, exist’). Related to *beuną (‘to be, become’).