Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pravo

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From *pravъ (“right, correct”).

Noun

*pravo n

1. right

Declension

Declension of *pravo (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pravo	*pravě	*prava
genitive	*prava	*pravu	*pravъ
dative	*pravu	*pravoma	*pravomъ
accusative	*pravo	*pravě	*prava
instrumental	*pravъmь, *pravomь*	*pravoma	*pravy
locative	*pravě	*pravu	*pravěxъ
vocative	*pravo	*pravě	*prava

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: право (pravo)
    • Old Ruthenian: право (pravo)
      • Belarusian: пра́ва (práva)
      • Ukrainian: пра́во (právo)
    • Russian: пра́во (právo)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Glagolitic script: ⱂⱃⰰⰲⱁ (pravo)

    Old Cyrillic script: право (pravo)

    • Bulgarian: пра́во (právo)
    • Macedonian: право (pravo)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пра́во

    Latin script: právo

  • Slovene: prȃvo (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: právo
    • Czech: právo
  • Old Polish: prawo
    • Polish: prawo
    • Silesian: prawo
  • Old Slovak: právo, práwo
    • Slovak: právo
  • Polabian: provü
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: prawò

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пра́во”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress