Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xyža

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 an earlier *xyza, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hūsą.

Noun

*xyža f

1. hut?, cabin?, house?

Declension

Declension of *xyža (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*xyža	*xyži	*xyžę̇
genitive	*xyžę̇	*xyžu	*xyžь
dative	*xyži	*xyžama	*xyžamъ
accusative	*xyžǫ	*xyži	*xyžę̇
instrumental	*xyžejǫ, *xyžǫ**	*xyžama	*xyžami
locative	*xyži	*xyžu	*xyžasъ, *xyžaxъ*
vocative	*xyže	*xyži	*xyžę̇

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic:
    • Carpathian Rusyn: хыжа (xŷža)
    • Russian: хи́жа (xíža) (dialectal)
    • Ukrainian: хи́жа (xýža)
• South Slavic
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: хꙑжа (xyža)

  • Bulgarian: хижа (hiža)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: хи̏жа

    Latin script: hȉža

    • Slavomolisano: hiža
  • Slovene: híša (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: chýše
  • Kashubian: chëcza, chëcz
  • Silesian: chyża
  • Slovak: chyža
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: chyža (dialectal)
    • Upper Sorbian: chěža

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xyža”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 165