Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xromota

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

By surface analysis, *xromъ +‎ *-ota.

Noun

*xromota f^[1]

lameness

Declension

Declension of *xromota (hard a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*xromota	*xromotě	*xromoty
genitive	*xromoty	*xromotu	*xromotъ
dative	*xromotě	*xromotama	*xromotamъ
accusative	*xromotǫ	*xromotě	*xromoty
instrumental	xromotojǫ, xromotǫ^**	*xromotama	*xromotami
locative	*xromotě	*xromotu	xromotasъ, xromotaxъ^*
vocative	*xromoto	*xromotě	*xromoty

^* -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: хромота (xromota)
  - Russian: хромота́ (xromotá)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: хромота (xromota)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Latin script: hromòta
- Slovene: hromóta (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: chromota
  - Czech: chromota
- Old Polish: chromota
  - Polish: chromota (obsolete)
- Old Slovak: chromota, chramota
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: chromota

References

^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xromota”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 101

[1] Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xromota”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 101

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