Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xoduľa

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 *xodъ +‎ *-uľa.

Noun

*xoduľa f^[1]

stilt

Declension

Declension of *xoduľa (soft a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*xoduľa	*xoduľi	*xoduľę̇
genitive	*xoduľę̇	*xoduľu	*xoduľь
dative	*xoduľi	*xoduľama	*xoduľamъ
accusative	*xoduľǫ	*xoduľi	*xoduľę̇
instrumental	xoduľejǫ, xoduľǫ^**	*xoduľama	*xoduľami
locative	*xoduľi	*xoduľu	xoduľasъ, xoduľaxъ^*
vocative	*xoduľe	*xoduľi	*xoduľę̇

^* -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 East Slavic: *ходулꙗ (*xodulja)
  - Old Ruthenian: *ходулꙗ (*xodulja)
    - Belarusian: хаду́ля (xadúlja)
    - Ukrainian: ходу́ля (xodúlja)
  - Russian: ходу́ля (xodúlja)
South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ходуља
  
  Latin script: hodulja
- Slovene: hodúlja (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: chodule
- Polish: chodulka
- Slovak: chodúľ, choduľa
- Sorbian:
  - ⇒ Upper Sorbian: khodulica

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xoduľa”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 50

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xoduľa”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 50

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