Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dъxořь

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

By surface analysis, *dъxъ (“whiff”) +‎ *-ořь (“-er”). Named after its foul-smelling secretion.

Noun

*dъxořь m

1. polecat

Declension

Declension of *dъxořь (soft o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*dъxořь	*dъxořa	*dъxoři
genitive	*dъxořa	*dъxořu	*dъxořь
dative	*dъxořu	*dъxořema	*dъxořemъ
accusative	*dъxořь	*dъxořa	*dъxořę̇
instrumental	*dъxořьmь, *dъxořemь*	*dъxořema	*dъxoři
locative	*dъxoři	*dъxořu	*dъxořixъ
vocative	*dъxořu	*dъxořa	*dъxoři

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: дъхорь (dŭxorĭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: тхоръ (txor)
      • Belarusian: тхор (txor)
      • Ukrainian: тхір (txir), хір (xir)
    • Middle Russian: тхорь (txorʹ), дохорь (doxorʹ)
      • Russian: хорь (xorʹ), тхорь (txorʹ), дохо́рь (doxórʹ), дхор (dxor), тхор (txor)
• South Slavic:
  • Macedonian: твор (tvor)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: тво̑р

    Latin script: tvȏr

  • Slovene: dihur
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: dchoř
    • Czech: tchoř
      • Moravian (Mistřice): schoř
  • Old Polish: tchórz, tórz
    • Polish: tchórz, twórz, tfórz
  • Slovak: tchor
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: tchór
    • Lower Sorbian: twóŕ

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Armenian: թոխոր (tʻoxor)
  • → Armeno-Kipchak: դխոր (tχor)
  • → Latvian: dukurs
    • → German: Ducker
  • → Finnish: tuhkuri
  • → Estonian: tuhkur
  • → Romanian: dihor

Further reading

• Anikin, A. E. (2020) “дохорь”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), issue 14 (дигнитарь – дрощи), Moscow: Nestor-Historia, →ISBN, page 274
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*dъxorь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 177
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “хорь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress