Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kaľuxъ

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 *kalъ (“mud, dirt”) +‎ *-juxъ.

Noun

*kaľuxъ m

1. viscera (digestive system, such as intestines and stomach)
2. dirty trough

Inflection

Declension of *kaľuxъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kaľuxъ	*kaľuxa	*kaľuśi
genitive	*kaľuxa	*kaľuxu	*kaľuxъ
dative	*kaľuxu	*kaľuxoma	*kaľuxomъ
accusative	*kaľuxъ	*kaľuxa	*kaľuxy
instrumental	*kaľuxъmь, *kaľuxomь*	*kaľuxoma	*kaľuxy
locative	*kaľuśě	*kaľuxu	*kaľuśěxъ
vocative	*kaľuše	*kaľuxa	*kaľuśi

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *калюхъ (*kaljuxŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: *ка́люхъ (*káljux)
      • Ukrainian: ка́лю́х (káljúx); калю́ха f (kaljúxa), ке́люх (kéljux) (dialectal)
    • Russian: ка́люх (káljux)

Further reading

• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1985), “калюх”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 2 (Д – Копці), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka