Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xa
Proto-Slavic
editEtymology
editOnomatopoeic. Cognate with Lithuanian cha cha cha (“ha-ha”), Latvian ha.
Interjection
edit*xa or *xa-xa
Descendants
edit- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
edit- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xa, *xa-xa”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 7
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “ха”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 145
- Snoj, Marko (2016) “hahȃ”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si