законъ

• (Glagolitic): ⰸⰰⰽⱁⱀⱏ (zakonŭ)

From за- (za-) +‎ конъ (konŭ), Proto-Slavic *zakonъ.

законъ • (zakonŭ) m

1. law

• законьникъ (zakonĭnikŭ)
• законопрѣстѫпьникъ (zakonoprěstǫpĭnikŭ)

• “законъ”, in GORAZD (overall work in Czech, English, and Russian), http://gorazd.org, 2016—2025
• Janyšková, Ilona, editor (2016), “zakonъ”, in Etymologický slovník jazyka staroslověnského [Etymological Dictionary of the Old Church Slavonic Language] (in Czech), numbers 18 (větъ – zakonъ), Brno: Tribun EU, →ISBN, page 1122

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zakonъ. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic законъ (zakonŭ).

• Hyphenation: за‧ко‧нъ

законъ (zakonŭ) m

1. law
2. testament, teaching
   • 1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik‎^[1], page 4:

     отъкрꙑи бо рече очи мои да раꙁоумѣю чюдеса отъ ꙁакона твоѥго

     otŭkryi bo reče oči moi da razuměju čjudesa otŭ zakona tvojego

     For he says "Open my eyes so that I understand the miracles from your testament."

• Old Ruthenian: зако́нъ (zakón)
  • Belarusian: зако́н (zakón)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: зако́н (zakón)
  • Ukrainian: зако́н (zakón)
• Russian: зако́н (zakón) (see there for further descendants)

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “законъ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[2] (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 921

зако́нъ • (zakón) m inan (genitive зако́на, nominative plural зако́ны, genitive plural зако́новъ)

1. Pre-1918 spelling of зако́н (zakón).