abie

English

Verb

abie

1. Obsolete form of aby.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 543:

     But patience perforce he muſt abie, / What fortune and his fate on him will lay, / Fond is the feare, that findes no remedie;

   • c. 1592, attributed to Thomas Kyd, “The Tragedy of Soliman and Preseda.”, in The Origin of the English Drama, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, published 1773, page 275:

     With cunning wordes tempted by chaſtity? / Thou ſhalt abie for both your treacheries.

   • 1600, VVilliam Shakeſpeare [i.e. William Shakespeare], A Midſommer nights dreame. […], […] Iames Roberts, page 47:

     For if thou doſt intend / Neuer ſo little ſhew of loue to her, / Thou ſhalt abie it.

Karelian

Regional variants of abie

North Karelian (Viena)	apie
South Karelian (Tver)	abie

Etymology

Borrowed from Old East Slavic обида (obida). Cognates include Finnish apea and Veps abid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑbie̯/
• Hyphenation: a‧bie

Noun

abie (genitive abien, partitive abieda)

1. (South Karelian) offence, insult

Adjective

abie (genitive abien, partitive abieda, comparative abiembi, superlative abein)

1. (South Karelian) insulting, offensive

Declension

Tver Karelian declension of abie (type 6/pimie, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	abie	abiet
genitive	abien	abein
partitive	abieda	abeida
illative	abieh	abeih
inessive	abiešša	abeissa
elative	abiešta	abeista
adessive	abiella	abeilla
ablative	abielda	abeilda
translative	abiekši	abeiksi
essive	abiena	abeina
comitative	abienke	abeinke
abessive	abietta	abeitta

Possessive forms of abie
1st person	abieni
2nd person	abieš
3rd person	abieh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

References

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “abie”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN