Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xatъrъčь

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xatъrъčь

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

Borrowed from Scythian *xata-ruča- (“dugout with a window ?”), from Proto-Iranian *kata- (compare Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀-‎ (kata-, “room, hut, cellar”), Persian کد‎ (kad, “house”)) + *ráwčah (“light”).

Noun

*xatъrъčь f

1. hut

Related terms

• *xata

Descendants

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: chatrč (“dilapidated house”)
  • Slovak: chatrč (“squalid house, shack”)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xatъrъčь?”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 22