Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/dъxorь

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 *dъxъ (“whiff”) +‎ *-ořь (“-er”). Named after its foul-smelling secretion.

Noun

*dъxorь m

1. polecat

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: дъхорь (dŭxorĭ), дохорь (doxorĭ), тхорь (txorĭ)
    • Belarusian: тхор (txor)
    • Russian: хорь (xorʹ), тхорь (txorʹ), дохо́рь (doxórʹ), дхор (dxor), тхор (txor)
    • Ukrainian: тхір (txir), хір (xir)
• South Slavic:
  • Macedonian: твор (tvor)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: тво̑р

    Latin script: tvȏr

  • Slovene: dihur
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: dchoř
    • Czech: tchoř
      • Moravian (Mistřice): schoř
  • Old Polish: tchórz, tórz
    • Polish: tchórz, twórz, tfórz
  • Slovak: tchor
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: tchór
    • Lower Sorbian: twóŕ

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Armenian: թոխոր (tʻoxor)
  • → Armeno-Kipchak: դխոր (tχor)
  • → Latvian: dukurs
    • → German: Ducker
  • → Finnish: tuhkuri
  • → Estonian: tuhkur
  • → Romanian: dihor

Further reading

• Anikin, A. E. (2020) “дохорь”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), numbers 14 (дигнитарь – дрощи), Moscow: Nestor-Historia, →ISBN, page 274
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*dъxorь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 177
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “хорь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress