Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/goruxa

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

Alternative forms

• *gořuxa

Etymology 1

From *gȍrьkъ (“bitter”) +‎ *-uxa.

Noun

*goruxa f

1. bitterness, pungency in taste

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: горуха (goruxa); ⇒? горухща (goruxšča)
    • ⇒ Old East Slavic: горушьнъ (gorušĭnŭ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • ⇒ Old Church Slavonic:

      Glagolitic script: ⰳⱁⱃⱓⱎⱐⱀⱏ (gorjušĭnŭ)

      Old Cyrillic script: горюшьнъ (gorjušĭnŭ)

    • Russian Church Slavonic: гороуха (goruxa), горюха (gorjuxa)
      • ⇒ Russian Church Slavonic: гороушьнꙑи (gorušĭnyi)
    • Bulgarian: гору́ха (gorúha) (dialectal), гру́ха (grúha)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: го̀руха, го̀рува (dialectal); ⇒ го̀руша, гору̏ша (dialectal)

    Latin script: gòruha, gòruva (dialectal); ⇒ gòruša, gorȕša (dialectal)

    ⇒ Cyrillic script: гору̀шица (dialectal), гуруши̏а

    ⇒ Latin script: gorùšica (dialectal), gurušȉca

  • Slovene: gorúha (tonal orthography)
    • ⇒ Slovene: gorúšica (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: horuch m (dialectal)

Etymology 2

From *gȍře (“grief”) +‎ *-uxa.

Noun

*goruxa f

1. big grief, big trouble

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old Ruthenian: горуха (horuxa)
    • Ukrainian: горюха (horjuxa) (dialectal)
  • Russian: го́рю́ха (górjúxa) (dialectal, archaic); ⇒ горю́ша (gorjúša) (dialectal)