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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xujь
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *skaujás, from Proto-Indo-European *skowyós, from *skwey- (“needle, prickle, thorn”).
Compare Albanian hu (“stake, pole; penis”) (from Proto-Albanian *skuna < *skuja + *-na, from Proto-Indo-European *skuy-ós).
Declension
Declension of *xȗjь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm c)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: хуй (huj)
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xujь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 114
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “хуй”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 221
- Rudnyc'kyj, Ja. (1972–1982) “хуй”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language, volumes 2 (Д – Ь), Ottawa: Ukrainian Mohylo-Mazepian Academy of Sciences; Ukrainian Language Association, →LCCN, page 1091
- Vasmer, Max (1958) “ху́й”, in Russisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (Indogermanische Bibliothek; 2) (in German), volumes 3 (Sta – Ÿ), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Carl Winter, →ISBN, page 277
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