Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xatъrъčь

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

Borrowed from Scythian *xata-ruča- (“dugout with a window ?”), from Proto-Iranian *kata- (compare Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀- (kata-, “room, hut, cellar”), Persian کد (kad, “house”)) + *ráwčah (“light”).

Noun

*xatъrъčь f

1. hut

Related terms

• *xata

Descendants

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: chatrč (“dilapidated house”)
  • Slovak: chatrč (“squalid house, shack”)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xatъrъčь?”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 22