Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xrěnъ
Proto-Slavic
editEtymology
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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
editDeclension of *xrěnъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | *xrěnъ | *xrě̀na | *xrě̀ni |
genitive | *xrě̀na | *xrě̀nu | *xrě̀nъ |
dative | *xrě̀nu | *xrě̀noma | *xrě̀nomъ |
accusative | *xrěnъ | *xrě̀na | *xrě̀ny |
instrumental | *xrě̀nъmь, *xrě̀nomь* | *xrě̀noma | *xrě̀nȳ |
locative | *xrě̀ně | *xrě̀nu | *xrě̀ně̄xъ |
vocative | *xrě̀ne | *xrě̀na | *xrě̀ni |
* -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:
- Non-Slavic:
References
editFurther 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, volume 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