лоша

Old East Slavic

Borrowed from Turkic languages,^[1] probably from Pecheneg and Bulgar *laša, *loša (“horse”)^[2] (compare Chuvash лаша (laš̬a), Tatar алаша (alaşa), dialectal лаша (laşa), Crimean Tatar alaşa, Kazakh алаша (alaşa)).^[3]^[4]

Attested in 1305 in the plural form лошата (lošata), quote: лошата и волꙑ ― lošata i voly ― foals and oxen.^[1]

лоша (loša) n^[1]

лошадь f (lošadĭ, “horse”)
- лошадинъ (lošadinŭ, “pertaining to horse”)
- лошадька f (lošadĭka, diminutive)
лошакъ m (lošakŭ, “a young horse”)
- лошачекъ m (lošačekŭ, diminutive)

Old Ruthenian: *лоша́ (*lošá)
- Belarusian: лаша́ (lašá), лоша́ (lošá) (dialectal)
- Ukrainian: лоша́ (lošá)
  - → Polish: łosza
Middle Russian: лоша́ (lošá) (c. 1489)^[5]
- Russian: лоша́ (lošá) (dialectal)

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Vasmer, Max (1967) “ло́шадь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 2 (Е – Муж), Moscow: Progress, page 525
^ Martynaŭ, V. U., editor (1990), “лошадзь”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volumes 6 (лі́ра – мая́чыць), Minsk: Navuka i technika, page 38
^ Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1989), “лоша”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 3 (Кора – М), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 296
^ Martynaŭ, V. U., editor (1989), “лаша́”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volumes 5 (ка́яць – ліпя́нка), Minsk: Navuka i technika, page 267
^ Filin, F. P., editor (1981), “лоша”, in Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. [Dictionary of the Russian Language: 11ᵗʰ–17ᵗʰ cc.] (in Russian), issue 8 (крада – лящина), Moscow: Nauka, page 288

лоша́ • (lošá) n animal (genitive лоша́ти, nominative plural лоша́та, genitive plural лоша́т)

Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “лоша”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka