-bo

From Old Norse Búi, from búi (“dweller”), from búa (“to dwell”), from Proto-Germanic *būą.

-bo

1. inhabitant of

• “-bo” in Den Danske Ordbog

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-bo

1. Final imperative particle.

• -nabe

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow, become, come into being, appear”). Compare fīō (“to become”).

-bō

1. used to form the future indicative of most Latin verbs from the 1st and 2nd conjugations

   ‎amō (“to love”) + ‎-bō → ‎amābō (“I will love”)

Some fourth conjugation verbs such as scīre used the -bō conjugation to construct the future (scībō, scībis, etc.), but switched to a similar pattern to the third conjugation (sciām, sciēs, etc.).

It correlates with the conjugation of the present indicative forms of the third conjugation.

• -bam

Presumably borrowed from Russian ибо (ibo).

• IPA^(key): /bo/

-bo

1. Emphasises the suffixed word.

   ‎kui (“how?”) + ‎-bo → ‎kuibo (“how (indeed)?”)

   ‎mi (“what?”) + ‎-bo → ‎mibo (“what (then)?”)

• Tatjana Boiko (2019), Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 26

From Old Swedish -boe, from Old Norse búi, from Proto-Germanic *būô.

• IPA^(key): /ˌbuː/, (uncommon, sometimes proscribed) /bʊ/

-bo c

1. Used to form the names of residents or inhabitants of particular places, in particular towns/cities.

   ‎London (“London”) + ‎-bo → ‎Londonbo (“Londoner”)

2. (historical) synonym of bygd (“region; district”)

-bo will work in almost all cases; -are is more common for certain towns/cities. But also in those cases, -bo should be considered valid. Note that in some cases, typically when the name of the location is a compound word, the interfix -s- is inserted before -bo, e.g. Stockholmsbo.

-it is even less common, denoting a person with very strong bonds towards the town or city in question; someone who lived there all of his/her life, possibly even with ancestors who lived there too. Only a few towns/cities give rise to commonly used -it-forms, notably Malmö (malmöit).

• -are
• -it

• IPA^(key): /bɑ/

-bo

1. up against

• kònkʼə́obo
• tə̂obo
• tə́ybobo
• tùsíwbo