Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/zakonъ

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 *za- (“for”) +‎ *konъ (“initiation, start, boundary point”).

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.

Derived terms

*zakonьnikъ (“law-maker, lawyer, canon”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: законъ (zakonŭ)
  - Old Ruthenian: зако́нъ (zakón)
    - Belarusian: зако́н (zakón)
    - Ukrainian: зако́н (zakón)
  - Russian: зако́н (zakón), зако́нъ (zakón)
    - → Armenian: զակոն (zakon)
    - → Evenki: закон (zakon)
    - → Kalmyk: закан (zakan)
    - → Khakas: закон (zakon)
    - → Kildin Sami: законн (zakonn)
    - → Northern Kurdish: zagon
    - → Southern Altai: зако́н (zakón)
    - → Uzbek: zakon
    - → Yakut: сокуон (sokuon)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic: законъ (zakonŭ)
  Glagolitic: ⰸⰰⰽⱁⱀⱏ (zakonŭ)
- Bulgarian: зако́н (zakón)
- Macedonian: закон (zakon)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: за́кон
  Latin: zákon
- Slovene: zákon
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: zákon
  - Czech: zákon
- Old Polish: zakon
  - Polish: zakon
- Slovak: zákon

References

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