Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/zakonъ

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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

Related to Proto-Slavic *konъ

Noun

*zakonъ m

law

Inflection

Declension of *zakonъ (hard o-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*zakonъ	*zakona	*zakoni
Accusative	*zakonъ	*zakona	*zakony
Genitive	*zakona	*zakonu	*zakonъ
Locative	*zakoně	*zakonu	*zakoněxъ
Dative	*zakonu	*zakonoma	*zakonomъ
Instrumental	zakonъmь, zakonomь^*	*zakonoma	*zakony
Vocative	*zakone	*zakona	*zakoni

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: законъ (zakonŭ)
  - Belarusian: зако́н (zakón)
  - Russian: зако́н (zakón)
  - Ukrainian: зако́н (zakón)

South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: законъ (zakonŭ)
  
  Glagolitic: ⰸⰰⰽⱁⱀⱏ (zakonŭ)
- Bulgarian: зако́н (zakón)
- Macedonian: закон (zakon)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: за́кон
  
  Latin: zákon
- Slovene: zákon

West Slavic:
- Czech: zákon
- Polish: zakon
- Slovak: zákon

References

Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964), “закон”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume I, translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress

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