pro

pro; pra Grammatical information: prep. / pref. Proto-Slavic meaning: `through'

Old Church Slavic:

pro- `through' [pref];

pra- `through' [pref]

Russian:

pro `about' [prep/pref];

pro- `through, past' [pref];

pra- `through, past' [pref] \{1\}

Czech:

pro- `through, past' [pref]

Bulgarian:

pro- `through' [pref]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: pro(ʔ) \{2\}

Lithuanian:

pra- by, through [pref];

pró- `pre-, fore-, between' [pref];

prõ `through, along, past' [prep]

Indo-European reconstruction: pro

Certainty: +

Other cognates:

Skt. pro- `before, forward' [adv];

Gk. πρό `before, forwards, forth' [adv]

Notes:

\{1\} The variant pra- occurs in nominal compounds. \{2\} The glottal stop was probably adopted from nouns with an initial laryngeal.