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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xorъ

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 *ksarus, inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *skaras, from Proto-Indo-European *skor-os, from *(s)ker- (“to scrape, to scrub, to clean”). Related to *xarъ (“gloomy, dark; dilapidated, shabby”).

Adjective

*xorъ[1][2][3]

  1. (North Slavic) dark, black

Inflection

Derived terms
adjective
nouns
  • *xorostь (“beauty, pleasantness; convenience”)
verbs
  • *xorxoriti (“to brag, show off; to be defiant”)

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • ⇒ Ukrainian: (dialectal) прихо́рний (pryxórnyj, “well-dressed”) (< *prixoriti < *xoriti < *xorъ)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: (dialectal) chory (“dark, black”)
      • ⇒ Czech: chorýš m (“black bread”)
    • Polish: chory (“black (about flour, bread)”)

References

  1. Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xorъjь?”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 83
  2. Shaposhnikov, A. K. (2010) “хороший”, in Этимологический словарь современного русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Contemporary Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 2: (Начать – Я), Moscow: Flinta; Nauka, →ISBN, page 498: “*хоръ(йь) ― *xorʺ(jʹ)”
  3. Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “хороший”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 203: “псл. *xorъjь ― psl. *xorʺjʹ”

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