English
Pravda
Pravda comes from Russian Правда.
- RussianmodernПравдаliterally ‘The Truth’
- Englishearliest quotation 1949Pravda
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- RussianmodernПравдаliterally ‘The Truth’
- Englishearliest quotation 1949Pravda
Earliest quotation: 1949, John Baker White, How's Business in Russia?: “These figures indicate that there must have been considerable…”
The story
Borrowed from Russian Правда (Pravda, literally “The Truth”).
Every English word from Russian Правда
Today it means
name The official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and successor papers.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Russian Правда / Pravda