Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ruxo

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 *rušiti +‎ *-o.

Noun

*ruxo n

1. garments, cloth

Declension

Declension of *ruxo (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ruxo	*ruśě	*ruxa
genitive	*ruxa	*ruxu	*ruxъ
dative	*ruxu	*ruxoma	*ruxomъ
accusative	*ruxo	*ruśě	*ruxa
instrumental	*ruxъmь, *ruxomь*	*ruxoma	*ruxy
locative	*ruśě	*ruxu	*ruśěxъ
vocative	*ruxo	*ruśě	*ruxa

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: рухо (ruxo)
    • Old Ruthenian: ру́хо (rúxo)
    • Russian: ру́хо (rúxo)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: роухо (ruxo)

    Glagolitic script: ⱃⱆⱈⱁ (ruxo)

    • → Byzantine Greek: ροῦχον (roûkhon)
      • Greek: ρούχο (roúcho)
    • Church Slavonic: рухо (ruxo) (Serbian recension)
    • Bulgarian: ру́хо (rúho) (dialectal)
    • Macedonian: руво (ruvo)
    • → Romanian: rufă
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ру̏хо

    Latin script: rȕho

  • Slovene: rúhо (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: roucho
  • Old Polish: rucho
    • Polish: rucho (obsolete)
  • Slovak: rúcho

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1972) “ру́хо”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 3 (Муза – Сят), Moscow: Progress, page 524