The Ukrainian Dialect bed instead of pered (“przed” − before)

Abstract

It was noted in 1965 that in one Ukrainian dialect from the Podlasie region we find the form of proposition bed in the sense of “przed” (before), instead of pered used generally in the Ukrainian language. The author accounts for it with such process as reduction of -ere- into -re- or -ē-, not without an influence of the respective Polish form przez (through) or the Church Slavic prez; vocalization of the initial p- into b-, which is possible - as testified by similar examples from the dialects and Ukrainian, Polish, and other Slavonic languages.