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правити

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Old Church Slavonic

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *praviti.

Verb

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правити (pravitiimpf

  1. to lead

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Old East Slavic

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Etymology

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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

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  • IPA(key): /ˈprɑʋiti//ˈpraʋʲitʲi//ˈpraʋʲitʲi/
  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ˈprɑʋiti/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ˈpraʋʲitʲi/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈpraʋʲitʲi/

  • Hyphenation: пра‧ви‧ти

Verb

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правити (pravitiimpf

  1. (transitive) to lead
  2. (transitive) to govern
    • 1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik[1], page 3:
      и пораꙁоумѣваꙗ оубо истиньнѣ писаниꙗ правимъ ѥсть ими·
      i porazuměvaja ubo istinĭně pisanija pravimŭ jestĭ imi·
      And so understanding the writings to [their] truth he is governed by them;
  3. (transitive) to follow, observe

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References

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  • 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]‎[2] (in Russian), volume 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1345

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *praviti.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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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

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Etymology

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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

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  • IPA(key): [ˈpraʋete]
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Verb

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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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