abe

To be.

Verb

  1. To be.
    • Let it abe, I say. - 1839, The New Monthly Magazine, volume 1, page 527:
    • But if it amuses her I let it abe. - 1864, Charles Dickens, Household Words, page 186:
    • But let that abe. - 1885, Charles Gibbon, Heart's Delight, page 154:

Origin

Probably a- + be.