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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

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

References
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