Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xvoroba

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 *xvorъ +‎ *-oba.

Noun

*xvoroba f

1. disease, illness

Declension

Declension of *xvoroba (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*xvoroba	*xvorobě	*xvoroby
genitive	*xvoroby	*xvorobu	*xvorobъ
dative	*xvorobě	*xvorobama	*xvorobamъ
accusative	*xvorobǫ	*xvorobě	*xvoroby
instrumental	*xvorobojǫ, *xvorobǫ**	*xvorobama	*xvorobami
locative	*xvorobě	*xvorobu	*xvorobasъ, *xvorobaxъ*
vocative	*xvorobo	*xvorobě	*xvoroby

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *хворо́ба (*xvoróba)
    • Old Ruthenian: хворо́ба (xvoróba); форо́ба (foróba) (dialectal)
      • Belarusian: хваро́ба (xvaróba)
      • Ukrainian: хворо́ба (xvoróba)
    • Russian: хворо́ба (xvoróba) (dialectal)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: choroba
  • Old Polish: choroba
    • Polish: choroba
      • → Old Ruthenian: хоро́ба (xoróba) (dialectal)
        • Ukrainian: хоро́ба (xoróba) (dialectal)
          • → Russian: хоро́ба (xoróba) (dialectal)
    • Silesian: choroba
  • Old Slovak: choroba
    • Slovak: choroba
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: chòroba
    • Slovincian: chôrôba
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: chóroba
    • Upper Sorbian: khoroba

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xvoroba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 128