Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xvojina

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 *xvoja +‎ *-ina.

Noun

*xvojina f

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Related terms

• *xvojica
• *xvojьka
• *xvojьnъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old Ruthenian: хвойна (xvojna)
    • Belarusian: хваі́на (xvaína, “conifer”) (dialectal)
    • Ukrainian: хвої́на (xvojína, “conifer”) (dialectal)
      • ⇒ Ukrainian: хвої́нка (xvojínka, “small pine forest”) (dialectal)
  • Russian: хвои́на f (xvoína, “firewood, twigs”) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: хво́йна f (hvójna, “juniper”), хвои́на (hvoína), хо́йна (hójna), хуи́на (huína), уи́на (uína); хо́йна (hójna), ху́йна (hújna) (dialectal)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: chvojina f (“needles or branches of conifer, conifer forest; (dial.) spruce”)
  • Kashubian: chòjna f (“conifer”)
  • Old Polish: choina f, chojna f (“needles or branches of conifer”)
    • Polish: choina f (“pine tree; pine grove; needles or branches of conifer”)
    • → Old Ruthenian: хойна (xojna)
  • Slovak: chvojina f (“needles or branches of conifer, stubble”)
  • Slovincian: chôjna f (“pine forest”)
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: chójna f (“ephedra (plant); pine forest; spruce”)
    • Upper Sorbian: khójna f (“spruce”)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xvojina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 127