Where does “jakby” come from?

jakby (Old Polish) comes from Old Polish -by, from Old Polish by, from Proto-Slavic *by.

jakby (Old Polish): as if, like

Definitions

  1. as if, like

Ancestry of “jakby”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Polish-by[[conditional mood
2Old Polishbyintroduces a clause of aim; to, so that, in order to
3Proto-Slavic*by—

Words derived from “jakby”

Every word from Proto-Slavic *by →Every word from Old Polish -by →Every word from Old Polish by →