Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sluxъ

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *klaušás, *ślaušás, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to hear”). Cognate with Lithuanian klausa (“hearing”), klausyti (“to hear”), Latvian klausīšanās (“listening”), klausīties (“to listen”).

Noun

*slȗxъ m

1. hearing, rumor

Declension

Declension of *slȗxъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*slȗxъ	*slȗxa	*slȗśi
genitive	*slȗxa	*sluxù	*slũxъ
dative	*slȗxu	*sluxomà	*sluxòmъ
accusative	*slȗxъ	*slȗxa	*slȗxy
instrumental	*slȗxъmь, *slȗxomь*	*sluxomà	*sluxý
locative	*slȗśě	*sluxù	*sluśě̃xъ
vocative	*sluše	*slȗxa	*slȗśi

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Related terms

• *sluti (“be called”)
• *slyšati (“to hear”)
• *slušati (“to listen”)
• *slȍvo (“word”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: слухъ (sluxŭ)
    • Belarusian: слых (slyx)
    • Russian: слух (slux)
    • Ukrainian: слух (slux)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: слоухъ (sluxŭ)

    Glagolitic: ⱄⰾⱆⱈⱏ (sluxŭ)

  • Bulgarian: слух (sluh)
  • Macedonian: слух (sluh)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: слу̑х

    Latin script: slȗh

  • Slovene: slȗh (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: sluch
    • Czech: sluch
  • Polish: słuch
  • Slovak: sluch

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “слух”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress