правити

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Old Church Slavonic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *praviti.

Verb

правити (pravitiimpf

  1. to lead

Conjugation

Old East Slavic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *praviti. By surface analysis, правъ (pravŭ, right) +‎ -ити (-iti). Cognates include Old Church Slavonic правити (praviti) and Old Polish prawić.

Pronunciation

  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ˈprɑʋiti/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ˈpraʋʲitʲi/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈpraʋʲitʲi/
  • Hyphenation: пра‧ви‧ти

Verb

правити (pravitiimpf

  1. (transitive) to lead
  2. (transitive) to govern
  3. (transitive) to follow, observe

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Descendants

References

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “правити, правлю”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volumes 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, правлю column 1345

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *praviti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /prâʋiti/
  • Hyphenation: пра‧ви‧ти

Verb

пра̏вити impf (Latin spelling prȁviti)

  1. (transitive) to make, create
  2. (transitive) to cause (damage, trouble, inconvenience etc.)
  3. (transitive) to fake, pretend
    (with adjective) Неки људи се праве паметни. — Some people pretend to be smart.
    (with да + subordinate clause) Правим се да то не прим(ј)ећујем. — I pretend not to notice it.

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Ukrainian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Ruthenian пра́вити (práviti), from Old East Slavic правити (praviti), from Proto-Slavic *praviti. By surface analysis, пра́в- (práv-) +‎ -ити (-yty). Cognate with Belarusian пра́віць (právicʹ), Russian пра́вить (právitʹ), Czech pravit, Polish prawić, Bulgarian пра́вя (právja), Serbo-Croatian пра̏вити.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
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Verb

пра́вити (právytyimpf

  1. (intransitive) to rule, to govern (+ insturmental)
  2. (transitive) to correct
  3. (transitive) to do, to perform, to carry out, to manage
  4. (transitive) to direct, to drive, to steer
  5. (intransitive) to go, to head, to be headed
  6. (transitive) to straighten

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References