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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xvoroba
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *xvorъ + *-oba.
Noun
*xvoroba f
- disease, illness
Declension
Declension of *xvoroba (hard a-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *xvoroba | *xvorobě | *xvoroby |
| Accusative | *xvorobǫ | *xvorobě | *xvoroby |
| Genitive | *xvoroby | *xvorobu | *xvorobъ |
| Locative | *xvorobě | *xvorobu | *xvorobasъ, *xvorobaxъ* |
| Dative | *xvorobě | *xvorobama | *xvorobamъ |
| Instrumental | *xvorobojǫ, *xvorobǫ** | *xvorobama | *xvorobami |
| Vocative | *xvorobo | *xvorobě | *xvoroby |
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
Descendants
- East Slavic
- Belarusian: хваро́ба (xvaróba)
- Russian: хворо́ба (xvoróba)
- Ukrainian: хворо́ба (xvoróba)
- West Slavic:
- Czech: choroba
- Polish: choroba
- Slovak: choroba
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: chóroba
- Upper Sorbian: khoroba
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xvoroba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 128