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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xvojьka
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *xvoja + *-ьka.
Noun
*xvojьka f
Related terms
- *xvojica
- *xvojina
- *xvojьnъ
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: хво́йка f (xvójka, “small pine”)
- Russian: хво́йка f (xvójka, “branches of conifer; pine; spruce”) (dialectal)
- South Slavic:
- Old Serbo-Croatian: hvȏjka f (< hvoja) (rare)
- Serbo-Croatian: hojka (dialectal)
- Old Slovene: hvojka f (“spurge”)
- Slovene: hȏjka f, hójka f (“spruce”)
- Old Serbo-Croatian: hvȏjka f (< hvoja) (rare)
- West Slavic:
- Czech: chůjka (“thuja”), chvojka (“savin juniper; cypress”) (dialectal)
- Kashubian: chójka (“pine”)
- Old Polish: chojka, chwojka (“savin juniper”)
- Polish: chojka (“conifer, pine”), chójka (dialectal)
- Slovak: xojka (“juniper”) (dialectal)
- Slovincian: χȯ́i̯kă f (“pine”), χȯjka f, xᵘ̯ȯi̯ka
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xvojьka”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 127