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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xarъ

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 earlier *ksārus. Related to *xorъ (“dark, black”), which from Proto-Balto-Slavic *skaras, from Proto-Indo-European *skor-os, from *(s)ker- (“to scrape, to scrub, to clean”).

Adjective

*xarъ[1][2]

  1. gloomy, dark
  2. dilapidated, shabby

Inflection

Derived terms
nouns
verbs

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: *харъ (*xarŭ)
      • Old Ruthenian: *ха́рый (*xáryj)
        • Ukrainian: (dialectal) ха́рий (xáryj, “nasty, ugly, disgusting”)[2]
          • ⇒ Ukrainian: харло́ (xarló, “swear word”)[3]
            • ⇒ Ukrainian: харла́ти (xarláty, “steal, appropriate (money)”)
            • ⇒ Ukrainian: (dialectal) харла́к (xarlák, “poor man, beggar”), харпа́к (xarpák)[4][5]
      • Russian: *ха́рый (*xáryj)
        • ⇒ Russian: (dialectal) ха́ро (xáro, “strongly”)
        • ⇒ Russian: (dialectal) ха́рзина (xárzina, “poor housing”)
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: (obsolete) ха́рий (hárij, “faulty”)
      • ⇒ Bulgarian: ста́роха́ро (stároháro, “about an old, decrepit man”)
    • ⇒ Slovene: harè n (“jade, nag (old or worn-out horse)”) (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: charý (“gloomy; dilapidated; shabby, ugly”)
      • ⇒ Czech: (dialectal) charuzna (“dilapidated house”)
    • ⇒? Middle Polish: charłać, charleć (16ᵗʰ c.)
      • ⇒? Polish: (dated) charłak, chorłak, cherłak, chyrłak (“weakling; poor man, beggar”)

References

  1. Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xarъjь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 21
  2. Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “харий”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 158: “псл. *xarъjь ― psl. *xarʺjʹ”
  3. Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “харло”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 159
  4. Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “харлак”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 159
  5. Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “харпак”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 159

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