Noun: by
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like by
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider.
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi
6. Proto-Germanic *bi
7. Proto-West Germanic *bī
8. Old English bī
9. Middle English by
10. English by
11. From Middle English by, bi, from Old English bī (“by; near; around”), from Proto-West Germanic *bī, from Proto-Germanic *bi (“near; by; around; about”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi.
12. Cognate with West Frisian by (“by; near”), Afrikaans by (“at; by; near”), Saterland Frisian bie (“near; by”), Dutch bij (“near; by”), German Low German bi (“by; near; at”), German bei (“by; near; at”). See: Dutch Nouns '
bij'.