Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xvojьnъ

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 *xvoja +‎ *-ьnъ.

Adjective

*xvojьnъ

Related terms

• *xvojica
• *xvojina
• *xvojьka

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old Ruthenian: хво́йный (xvójnyj)
    • Belarusian: хво́йны (xvójny)
    • Ukrainian: хво́йний (xvójnyj)
  • Russian: хво́йный (xvójnyj, “coniferous”)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Serbo-Croatian: hvojan, hvojana (“made of twigs”) (rare)
    • ⇒ Serbo-Croatian: Фо̑јница f (“Fojnica”) (Bosnian toponym)
  • Slovene: hȏjen (“coniferous, firry”)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: chvojný (“coniferous”) (rare)
  • ⇒ Polabian: ch’üöjnéć(a) (< ch’ǘöja)
  • ⇒ Old Polish: chojnik (“pine forest”)
  • Sorbian:
    • ⇒ Lower Sorbian: chójnica f (“small pine forest”)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xvojьnъ(jь)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 127