издавна

Formed from the ancestor of из (iz, “from”) + the genitive of Proto-Slavic *davьnъ (“ancient, past”).

• IPA^(key): [izˈdavnɐ]

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изда́вна • (izdávna) (not comparable)

1. (archaic) since long ago

• недавна (nedavna, “not long ago”) (archaic)
• отдавна (otdavna, “long ago”)

• “издавна”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “давно”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 312

• IPA^(key): [ˈizdəvnə]

и́здавна • (ízdavna)

1. long since; since long ago

   Synonym: и́сстари (ísstari)

   • 1843, Владимир Одоевский [Vladimir Odoyevsky], “Ночь пятая: Город без имени”, in Русские ночи; English translation from “The Fifth Night: A City Without Name”, in Olga Koshansky-Olienikov & Ralph E. Matlaw, transl., Russian Nights, 1997 [1965], page 109:

     Есте́ственная поэти́ческая стихи́я и́здавна была́ умерщвлена́ коры́стными расчё́тами по́льзы.

     Jestéstvennaja poetíčeskaja stixíja ízdavna bylá umerščvlená korýstnymi rasčótami pólʹzy.

     The natural, poetical element was long since killed by selfish calculations of profit.

• давно́ (davnó)