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

Nominalization of *pràvo n (“right, straight; correct”). It also may be post-Proto-Slavic calque from German, ultimately from Latin iūs.

Noun

*pràvo n

1. right (legal, just or moral entitlement)

Declension

Declension of *pràvo (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pràvo	*pràvě	*pràva
genitive	*pràva	*pràvu	*pràvъ
dative	*pràvu	*pràvoma	*pràvomъ
accusative	*pràvo	*pràvě	*pràva
instrumental	*pràvъmь, *pràvomь*	*pràvoma	*pràvȳ
locative	*pràvě	*pràvu	*pràvě̄xъ
vocative	*pràvo	*pràvě	*pràva

^* -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:
  • 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
    • Pannonian Rusyn: право (pravo)
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: prawò
    • Slovincian: prawô
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: pšawo

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