Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xъrvatъ
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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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. Common theories from the 20th century derive it from an Iranian origin, the root word being a third-century Scytho-Sarmatian form allegedly attested in the Tanais Tablets as Χορούαθος (Khoroúathos), Χοροάθος (Khoroáthos) and Χορόαθος (Khoróathos), probably the name of the ruler of a city in that region, near the mouth of the river Don;[1] this has also been corroborated with names on ancient gravestones in Tanais, which gives some credence to the interpretation as a clan name.[2] A similar name for a tribe of the north Caucasus occurs in the tenth-century De Ceremoniis as Krevatās, Krevatades.[3] On the other hand, modern scholars such as Matasović tend to dismiss these as coincidences with respect to the Croatian ethnonym,[4] and consider the identification of the relevant Scytho-Caucasian tribes with Slavs implausible on historical and geographic grounds; nonetheless, an ultimate Iranian origin is regarded as plausible. See Etymology of Croatia on Wikipedia for a detailed discussion of the various hypotheses.
Noun
[edit]*xъrvatъ m[5]
- (Common Slavic) Croat
Declension
[edit]Possibly accent paradigm a?
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *xъrvatъ | *xъrvata | *xъrvati |
| genitive | *xъrvata | *xъrvatu | *xъrvatъ |
| dative | *xъrvatu | *xъrvatoma | *xъrvatomъ |
| accusative | *xъrvatъ | *xъrvata | *xъrvaty |
| instrumental | *xъrvatъmь, *xъrvatomь* | *xъrvatoma | *xъrvaty |
| locative | *xъrvatě | *xъrvatu | *xъrvatěxъ |
| vocative | *xъrvate | *xъrvata | *xъrvati |
Descendants
[edit]- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- Non-Slavic:
References
[edit]- ^ Gluhak, Alemko (1993) “Hr̀vāt”, in Hrvatski etimološki rječnik [Croatian Etymology Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, →ISBN
- ^ Škegro, Ante (2005) “Two Public Inscriptions from the Greek Colony of Tanais at the Mouth of the Don River on the Sea of Azov”, in Review of Croatian History[1], volume I, number 1, pages 9–28
- ^ Marčinko, Mato (2000) “Tragovi i podrijetlo imena Hrvat [Traces and origin of the Croatian name]”, in Naklada Jurčić, Indoiransko podrijetlo Hrvata [Indo-Iranian origin of Croats], →ISBN, page 184
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2019) “Ime Hrvata [The Name of Croats]”, in Jezik, volume 66, number 3, Zagreb: Croatian Philological Society, pages 81–97
- ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xъrvat(in)ъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 149
Further reading
[edit]- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “хорва́т”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress