Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xujь

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

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *skaujás, from Proto-Indo-European *skowyós, from *skwey- (“needle, prickle, thorn”).

Compare Albanian hu (“stake, pole; penis”) (from Proto-Albanian *skuna < *skuja + *-na, from Proto-Indo-European *skuy-ós).

Noun

*xȗjь m

1. (originally) stiff part of a plant (twig, shoot)
2. penis

Declension

Declension of *xȗjь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*xȗjь	*xȗja	*xȗji
genitive	*xȗja	*xujù	*xũjь
dative	*xȗju	*xujemà	*xujèmъ
accusative	*xȗjь	*xȗja	*xȗję̇
instrumental	*xȗjьmь, *xȗjemь*	*xujemà	*xují
locative	*xȗji	*xujù	*xujĩxъ
vocative	*xuju	*xȗja	*xȗji

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

Related terms

• *xvoja / *xvojь (“needles or branches of a coniferous tree”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: хуи (xui)
    • Old Ruthenian: *хуй (*xuj)
      • Belarusian: хуй (xuj)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: хуй (xuj)
      • Ukrainian: хуй (xuj)
    • Russian: хуй (xuj) (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Pskovian: хоуи (xui)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: хуй (huj)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Polish: *chuj; Chuj, ⇒ Łupichuj (proper noun)
    • Polish: chuj
      • →? Czech: chuj
    • Silesian: chuj
  • Old Slovak: *chuj
    • Pannonian Rusyn: хуй (xuj)
    • Slovak: chuj
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: chùj

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xujь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 114
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “хуй”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 221
• Rudnyc'kyj, Ja. (1972–1982) “хуй”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language, volumes 2 (Д – Ь), Ottawa: Ukrainian Mohylo-Mazepian Academy of Sciences; Ukrainian Language Association, →LCCN, page 1091
• Vasmer, Max (1958) “ху́й”, in Russisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (Indogermanische Bibliothek; 2) (in German), volumes 3 (Sta – Ÿ), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Carl Winter, →ISBN, page 277