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”).^[1]

Noun

*pravo n

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
  - Pannonian Rusyn: право (pravo)
- Polabian: provü
- Pomeranian:
  - Kashubian: prawò
  - Slovincian: prawô
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: pšawo

References

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

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

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