prawo

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See also: prawò

Old Polish

Etymology

From prawy +‎ -o. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /praːvɔ/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /prɒvɔ/

Noun

prawo n

  1. law (group or system of legally binding norms)
    1. law determining course action between a peasant and a lord
  2. law (one such norm)
  3. right (legal, just or moral entitlement)
  4. document granting or ensuring a right
  5. court; court session
  6. jurisdiction (material, personal or territorial scope of the court)
  7. judgement (court's decision)
  8. duty or obligation resulting from a legal decision
  9. justice, fairness

Descendants

  • Polish: prawo
  • Silesian: prawo

References

  • Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “prawo”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  • Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “prawo”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “prawo”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish prawo. By surface analysis, prawy +‎ -o. Compare Kashubian prawò and Slovincian prawô.

Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -avɔ
  • Syllabification: pra‧wo

Noun

prawo n (related adjective prawny)

  1. (uncountable) law (body of binding rules and regulations, customs and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities)
    Synonyms: legislacja, prawodawstwo, ustawodawstwo
  2. (uncountable) law (discipline studying such a body; formal field of study of such at an institution; branch at such an institution dedicated to such study)
    Synonym: prawoznawstwo
  3. (countable) law (binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way)
  4. (countable) right (legal, just or moral entitlement)
    Synonym: uprawnienie
    1. (obsolete) document granting or ensuring a right
  5. (countable) law (natural rule that must be followed)
    Synonym: zasada
  6. (obsolete) lawsuit
    Synonym: proces
  7. (obsolete) duty, obligation
    Synonyms: obowiązek, powinność
  8. pretense (unsupported claim made or implied)
    Synonyms: pretensja, roszczenie
  9. (obsolete) correctness, fairness; rightness (state of being correct, fair, or right)

Declension

Adverb

prawo (not comparable)

  1. (only in some phrases) to the right
    Synonyms: na prawo, w prawo

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Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), prawo is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 66 times in scientific texts, 45 times in news, 75 times in essays, 21 times in fiction, and 42 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 249 times, making it the 213th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “prawo”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 432

Further reading

  • prawo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • prawo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “prawo”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “prawo”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • PRAWO”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2015 June 30
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “prawo”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “prawo”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “prawo”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 980
  • prawo in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish prawo. By surface analysis, prawy +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpra.vɔ/
  • Rhymes: -avɔ
  • Syllabification: pra‧wo

Noun

prawo n

  1. law (group or system of legally binding norms)
  2. right (legal, just or moral entitlement)
  3. right side, right direction (not left)

Declension

Further reading