Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xudoba

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 *xudъ +‎ *-oba.

Noun

*xudoba f^[1]

leanness, thinness

Declension

Declension of *xudoba (hard a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*xudoba	*xudobě	*xudoby
genitive	*xudoby	*xudobu	*xudobъ
dative	*xudobě	*xudobama	*xudobamъ
accusative	*xudobǫ	*xudobě	*xudoby
instrumental	xudobojǫ, xudobǫ^**	*xudobama	*xudobami
locative	*xudobě	*xudobu	xudobasъ, xudobaxъ^*
vocative	*xudobo	*xudobě	*xudoby

^* -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: худоба (xudoba)
  - Old Ruthenian: худоба (xudoba)
    - Belarusian: худо́ба (xudóba)
    - Ukrainian: худо́ба (xudóba)
  - Russian: худоба́ (xudobá)
South Slavic:
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: худо̀ба
  
  Latin script: hudòba
- Slovene: hudôba (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: chudoba
- Old Polish: chudoba
  - Polish: chudoba (dialectal)
- Slovak: chudoba
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: chudoba
  - Upper Sorbian: khudoba

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xudoba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 110

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xudoba”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 110

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