< Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic
Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xvorstъ
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
- From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kšwáršta (“?”);
- Perhaps cognate with Proto-West Germanic *hursti (“thicket; wood; grove; nest”);
- Unknown.
Noun
*xvõrstъ m[1]
- brushwood
Declension
Declension of *xvõrstъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *xvõrstъ | *xvōrstà | *xvōrstì |
| Accusative | *xvõrstъ | *xvōrstà | *xvōrstỳ |
| Genitive | *xvōrstà | *xvōrstù | *xvõrstъ |
| Locative | *xvōrstě̀ | *xvōrstù | *xvõrstěxъ |
| Dative | *xvōrstù | *xvōrstòma | *xvōrstòmъ |
| Instrumental | *xvōrstъ̀mь, *xvōrstòmь* | *xvōrstòma | *xvõrsty |
| Vocative | *xvorste | *xvōrstà | *xvōrstì |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Descendants
- East Slavic: хворостъ (xvorostŭ)
- Belarusian: хво́раст (xvórast)
- Russian: хво́рост (xvórost)
- Ukrainian: хворо́ст (xvoróst)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: хврастъ (xvrastŭ)
- Bulgarian: храст (hrast)
- Macedonian:
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: хра̑ст
- Latin: hrȃst
- Slovene: hrást
- Old Church Slavonic: хврастъ (xvrastŭ)
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: chvrast
- Czech: chrast
- Kashubian: chróst, chwarzt
- Polish: chrust
- Slovak: chrast
- Slovincian: χrȯ́u̯st
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: chróst
- Old Czech: chvrast
- Non-Slavic:
- → Romanian: vreasc
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “хво́рост”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*xvórstъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 206