Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xrěnъ
Proto-Slavic edit
Etymology edit
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Unclear. Compare Ancient Greek κεράϊν (keráïn, “wild radish”) or Chuvash хӗрен (hĕren) (if not from East Slavic).
For the name compare:
- Radish: German Meerrettich (literally “foreign radish”), English horseradish.
- Root: French raifort (literally “strong root”), Portuguese raiz-forte (literally “strong root”).
Noun edit
*xrěnъ m
Inflection edit
Declension of *xrěnъ (hard o-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | *xrěnъ | *xrěna | *xrěni |
genitive | *xrěna | *xrěnu | *xrěnъ |
dative | *xrěnu | *xrěnoma | *xrěnomъ |
accusative | *xrěnъ | *xrěna | *xrěny |
instrumental | *xrěnъmь, *xrěnomь* | *xrěnoma | *xrěny |
locative | *xrěně | *xrěnu | *xrěněxъ |
vocative | *xrěne | *xrěna | *xrěni |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
See also edit
- *redьky (“radish”)
Derived terms edit
- *xrěnovъ (adj.)
Descendants edit
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
References edit
Further reading edit
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “хрен”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “хрен”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 356
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xrěnъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 91
- http://www.ruslang.ru/doc/etymology/1976/09-l%27vov.pdf
- http://vja.ruslang.ru/archive/1974-4.pdf#page=109