Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xvorstъ

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 *kšwáršta (“?”);
• Perhaps cognate with Proto-West Germanic *hursti (“thicket; wood; grove; nest”);
• Unknown.

Noun

*xvõrstъ m

1. brushwood

Declension

Declension of *xvõrstъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*xvõrstъ	*xvōrstà	*xvōrstì
genitive	*xvōrstà	*xvōrstù	*xvõrstъ
dative	*xvōrstù	*xvōrstòma	*xvōrstòmъ
accusative	*xvõrstъ	*xvōrstà	*xvōrstỳ
instrumental	*xvōrstъ̀mь, *xvōrstòmь*	*xvōrstòma	*xvõrsty
locative	*xvōrstě̀	*xvōrstù	*xvõrstěxъ
vocative	*xvorste	*xvōrstà	*xvōrstì

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic: хворостъ (xvorostŭ)
  • Belarusian: хво́раст (xvórast)
  • Russian: хво́рост (xvórost)
  • Ukrainian: хворо́ст (xvoróst)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: хврастъ (xvrastŭ)
    • Bulgarian: храст (hrast)
  • Macedonian:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: хра̑ст

    Latin script: hrȃst

  • Slovene: hrást
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: chvrast
    • Czech: chrast
  • Kashubian: chróst, chwarzt
  • Polish: chrust
  • Slovak: chrast
  • Slovincian: chróst
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: chróst
• Non-Slavic:
  • → Romanian: vreasc

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “хво́рост”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress