Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xvoščь

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 *xvostъ +‎ *-jь.

Noun

*xvoščь m

1. horsetail, mare's-tail (Equisetum)

Declension

Declension of *xvoščь (soft o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*xvoščь	*xvošča	*xvošči
genitive	*xvošča	*xvošču	*xvoščь
dative	*xvošču	*xvoščema	*xvoščemъ
accusative	*xvoščь	*xvošča	*xvoščę̇
instrumental	*xvoščьmь, *xvoščemь*	*xvoščema	*xvošči
locative	*xvošči	*xvošču	*xvoščixъ
vocative	*xvošču	*xvošča	*xvošči

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *хвощь (*xvoščĭ); ⇒ Хвощовъ (Xvoščovŭ) (personal name)
    • Old Ruthenian: хвощъ (xvošč)
      • Belarusian: хвошч (xvošč)
      • Ukrainian: хвощ (xvošč), хвiщ (xvišč); фощ (fošč) (dialectal)
    • Russian: хвощ (xvošč); хвоща (xvošča) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: хвощ (hvošt)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: хвост; ⇒ хвошће, во́шће

    Latin script: hvost; ⇒ hvosće, vósće

  • Slovene: hvôšč (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: chvošť (dialectal)
  • Polabian: ch́üst
  • Old Polish: *chwoszcz, *choszcz
    • Polish: chwoszcz (dialectal)
  • Pomeranian:
    • Slovincian: chôszcz
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: chóšć; chwóšć (archaic)
    • Upper Sorbian: chošć

Further reading

• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “хвощ”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 170