Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pra-

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

    Either from Proto-Indo-European *prṓ / *próh₁, or directly from *pro-, with *H adopted from nouns with initial laryngeal.[1]

    Prefix

    *pra-

    1. proto-
    2. great-

    Descendants

    • East Slavic:
      • Old East Slavic: пра- (pra-)
    • South Slavic:
      • Old Church Slavonic:
        Old Cyrillic script: пра- (pra-)
      • Bulgarian: пра- (pra-)
      • Macedonian: пра- (pra-)
      • Serbo-Croatian:
        Cyrillic script: пра-
        Latin script: pra-
      • Slovene: prȃ- (tonal orthography)
    • West Slavic:

    References

    1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pro; *pra”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 420

    Further reading

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