Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xvoščь

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 *xvostъ +‎ *-jь.

Noun

*xvoščь m^[1]

horsetail, mare's-tail (Equisetum)

Declension

Declension of *xvoščь (soft o-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*xvoščь	*xvošča	*xvošči
genitive	*xvošča	*xvošču	*xvoščь
dative	*xvošču	*xvoščema	*xvoščemъ
accusative	*xvoščь	*xvošča	*xvoščę̇
instrumental	xvoščьmь, xvoščemь^*	*xvoščema	*xvošči
locative	*xvošči	*xvošču	*xvoščixъ
vocative	*xvošču	*xvošča	*xvošči

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: *хвощь (*xvoščĭ); ⇒ Хвощовъ (Xvoščovŭ) (personal name)
  - Old Ruthenian: хвощъ (xvošč)
    - Belarusian: хвошч (xvošč)
    - Ukrainian: хвощ (xvošč), хвiщ (xvišč); фощ (fošč) (dialectal)
  - Russian: хвощ (xvošč); хвоща (xvošča) (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: хвощ (hvošt)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: хвост; ⇒ хвошће, во́шће
  
  Latin script: hvost; ⇒ hvosće, vósće
- Slovene: hvôšč (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: chvošť (dialectal)
- Polabian: ch́üst
- Old Polish: *chwoszcz, *choszcz
  - Polish: chwoszcz (dialectal)
- Pomeranian:
  - Slovincian: chôszcz
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: chóšć; chwóšć (archaic)
  - Upper Sorbian: chošć

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xvoščь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 134