Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xvojьka

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 *xvoja +‎ *-ьka.

Noun

*xvojьka f

Related terms

• *xvojica
• *xvojina
• *xvojьnъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: хво́йка f (xvójka, “small pine”)
  • Russian: хво́йка f (xvójka, “branches of conifer; pine; spruce”) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Serbo-Croatian: hvȏjka f (< hvoja) (rare)
    • Serbo-Croatian: hojka (dialectal)
  • Old Slovene: hvojka f (“spurge”)
    • Slovene: hȏjka f, hójka f (“spruce”)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: chůjka (“thuja”), chvojka (“savin juniper; cypress”) (dialectal)
  • Kashubian: chójka (“pine”)
  • Old Polish: chojka, chwojka (“savin juniper”)
    • Polish: chojka (“conifer, pine”), chójka (dialectal)
  • Slovak: xojka (“juniper”) (dialectal)
  • Slovincian: chójka f (“pine”)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xvojьka”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 127