хвойна

Bulgarian

дръмка хвойна

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xvojina. By surface analysis, хво́я (hvója, “conifer”) +‎ -на (-na).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈxvɔjnɐ]

Noun

хво́йна • (hvójna) f (relational adjective хво́йнoв)

1. juniper (conifer shrub or small tree of genus Juniperus)

   Synonym: смри́ка (smríka)

Declension

Declension of хво́йна

	singular	plural
indefinite	хво́йна hvójna	хво́йни hvójni
definite	хво́йната hvójnata	хво́йните hvójnite

Alternative forms

• хо́йна (hójna), хуина́ (huiná) — dialectal

Related terms

• хуй (huj, “prick, wood”) (modern sense: “male genitalia”)

References

• “хвойна”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “хвойна”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Nayden Gerov, Тодор Панчев (1904) “хвойна”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎^[1] (in Bulgarian), volume 5, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 495

Old Ruthenian

хвойна (sense 1)

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic *хвоина (*xvoina), from Proto-Slavic *xvojina, from *xvòja. By surface analysis, хво́ꙗ (xvója) +‎ -ина (-ina). Doublet of хойна (xojna).

Noun

f-in ?

2. coniferous forest

   тыи дей, котории его били, побачивши насъ, у хвойну втекли ― tyj dej, kotorii eho bili, pobačivši nas, u xvojnu vtekli

3. conifer tree (pine, spruce)

Related terms

Old Ruthenian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *skwey- (0 c, 5 e)

• хво́йный (xvójnyj)
• хво́ꙗ f (xvója)

 

Descendants

• Belarusian: хваі́на (xvaína, “conifer”) (dialectal)
• Ukrainian: хвої́на (xvojína, “conifer”) (dialectal)
  • ⇒ Ukrainian: хвої́нка (xvojínka, “small pine forest”) (dialectal)

Further reading

• Bulyka, A. M., editor (2016), “хвойна”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 36 (фолкга – чорно), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 62