Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xvojь

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

Alternative forms

• *xvoja

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *skwajas, from Proto-Indo-European *skwoy-os, from *skwey- (“needle, prickle, thorn”).

Noun

*xvojь m

1. Alternative form of *xvoja

Declension

Declension of *xvojь (soft o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*xvojь	*xvoja	*xvoji
genitive	*xvoja	*xvoju	*xvojь
dative	*xvoju	*xvojema	*xvojemъ
accusative	*xvojь	*xvoja	*xvoję̇
instrumental	*xvojьmь, *xvojemь*	*xvojema	*xvoji
locative	*xvoji	*xvoju	*xvojixъ
vocative	*xvoju	*xvoja	*xvoji

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

Related terms

• *xujь

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *хвои (*xvoi)
    • хвой m (xvoj, “coniferous forest; brushwood; twigs”) (dialectal, archaic)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Slovak: chvoj
    • Slovak: chvoj

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xvoja / *xvojь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 125