Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xoxuľa

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

*xoxuľi

Alternative forms

• *xoxuľь

Etymology

Unknown etymology. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

*xoxuľa f

1. desman

Declension

Declension of *xoxuľa (soft a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*xoxuľa	*xoxuľi	*xoxuľę̇
genitive	*xoxuľę̇	*xoxuľu	*xoxuľь
dative	*xoxuľi	*xoxuľama	*xoxuľamъ
accusative	*xoxuľǫ	*xoxuľi	*xoxuľę̇
instrumental	*xoxuľejǫ, *xoxuľǫ**	*xoxuľama	*xoxuľami
locative	*xoxuľi	*xoxuľu	*xoxuľasъ, *xoxuľaxъ*
vocative	*xoxuľe	*xoxuľi	*xoxuľę̇

^* -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 Ruthenian: *хоху́лꙗ (*xoxúlja)
    • Belarusian: хаху́ля (xaxúlja), хахо́ля (xaxólja), хуху́ля (xuxúlja)
    • Ukrainian: хоху́ля (xoxúlja); хуху́ля (xuxúlja), хоху́ль m (xoxúlʹ) (dialectal)
  • Russian: хоху́ля (xoxúlja), хаху́ля (xaxúlja) (dialectal)
  • ⇒ Middle Russian: вы́хухоль (výxuxolʹ), вы́хохоль (výxoxolʹ) (17ᵗʰ century)
    • Russian: вы́хухоль (výxuxolʹ), вы́хохоль (výxoxolʹ), вы́хохуль (výxoxulʹ), вы́хуль (výxulʹ); хоху́ля (xoxúlja), хаху́ля (xaxúlja)
      • → Belarusian: вы́хухаль (výxuxalʹ)
      • → Czech: vychuchol
      • → German: Wychochol, Wychuchol
      • → Polish: wychuchol
      • → Serbo-Croatian: vȉhuhalj
      • → Slovak: vychuchol
      • → Ukrainian: ви́хухіль (výxuxilʹ)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: chochul m
  • Polish: chochoł m, chochuł m
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: chochula f

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xoxuľa”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 56
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “хоху́ля”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 206
• Anikin, A. E. (2015) “вы́хухоль”, in Русский этимологический словарь [Russian Etymological Dictionary] (in Russian), numbers 9 (врандовать – галоп), Moscow: Russian Language Institute, →ISBN, page 211