Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xomǫtъ

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

Possibly an early borrowing from Turkic, compare Chuvash хӑмӑт (hămăt), Tatar камыт (qamıt), Kyrgyz каамыт (kaamıt).

Noun

*xomǫtъ m

1. horse's collar, hames

Declension

Declension of *xomǫtъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*xomǫtъ	*xomǫta	*xomǫti
genitive	*xomǫta	*xomǫtu	*xomǫtъ
dative	*xomǫtu	*xomǫtoma	*xomǫtomъ
accusative	*xomǫtъ	*xomǫta	*xomǫty
instrumental	*xomǫtъmь, *xomǫtomь*	*xomǫtoma	*xomǫty
locative	*xomǫtě	*xomǫtu	*xomǫtěxъ
vocative	*xomǫte	*xomǫta	*xomǫti

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: хаму́т (xamút)
  • Russian: хому́т (xomút)
  • Ukrainian: хому́т (xomút)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: хомо́т (homót)
  • Macedonian: амут (amut)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: хо̏мут

    Latin script: xȍmut

  • Slovene: homot
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: chomút
    • Czech: chomout
  • Polish: chomąt, chomąto
  • Slovak: chomút
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: chomot
    • Upper Sorbian: chomot

Further reading

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*xomǫtъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 204
• Schenker, Alexander M. (1996) The Dawn of Slavic: An Introduction to Slavic Philology, 2.66. Lexical borrowing, pp. 159-160.
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xomǫtъ / *xomotъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 69
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “хому́т”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress