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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xoxotati

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

Onomatopoeic. Compare Ancient Greek καχάζω (kakházō, to laugh loudly), Latin cachinnō (to laugh loudly), Old Armenian խախանք (xaxankʻ, laughter), Proto-West Germanic *kahhattjan, Sanskrit कखति (kákhati, to laugh).

Verb

*xoxotati

  1. to laugh loudly

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: хохота́ть (xoxotátʹ), 1sg. хохочу́ (xoxočú), 3sg. хохо́чет (xoxóčet)
    • Ukrainian: хохота́ти (xoxotáty)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      • Church Slavonic: хохотати (xoxotati)
    • Bulgarian: кикотя (kikotja)
    • Macedonian: се ки́коти (se kíkoti)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: хохотати (archaic or rare)
      Latin: hohotati (archaic or rare)
    • Slovene: hohotáti (tonal orthography), 1sg. hohotȃm, hohọ́čem (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: chochtat, 1sg. chochtám
    • Polish: chichotać
    • Slovak: chichotať sa, chychotať sa
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: chachotać (to laugh loudly), chichotać (to giggle)
      • Lower Sorbian: chychotaś, chichotaś (to giggle)

References

  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “хо́хот”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 353
  • Derksen, Rick (2008) “*xoxotati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 203
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xoxotati (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 55
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “хо́хот”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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