Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čuxъ

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.

Onomatopoeic, seemingly related to Proto-Slavic *čukъ (“knock, clatter”), *cukъ (“tick, tock”). Probably derived from a non-attested *čuti (“to growl, to bark”) +‎ *-xъ attested as extended *čьvati. Compare further Proto-Indo-European *kew- (“to howl, to wail”), *(s)kew- (“to shout, to scold”).

For the suffix, compare Proto-Slavic *kyxъ (“cough”), *ťuxъ (“wail”), *buxъ (“woo, cough”), *puxъ (“pant”).

*čuxъ m

1. growl, grouch, bark (low, rumbling sound)
2. puff, sniffle (action that produces rumbling noise)
3. choo (as interjection)

• *čuxati (“to choo”)

• *čьvati, *ščьvati (“to bark, to harass”)
• *xula (“reproach, unjust vilification”)
• *čula (“grumpy animal”)
• *čuxa (“sniffing animal”)
  • Russian: чу́ха (čúxa, “piglet”)

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: чух (čux), цух (cux) (interjection)
  • Ukrainian: чух (čux), шуф (šuf)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: чух (čuh), probably also кюх (kjuh), кюф (kjuf) (dialectal)
  • Slovene: čȗh (“puff, pant”)

• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “кюхам²”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 258: от звукоподражателна основа

From *čuti (“to sense, to feel”) +‎ *-xъ.

*čuxъ m

1. feeling, scent

   Synonyms: *usętъ, *čutьje

2. (particularly) smell, odor, stench

   Synonyms: *voňa, *ňuxъ, *smordь

• *čuxati (“to sense, to smell”)

• *čutьje (“feeling, scent”)
• *čuvьstvo (“feeling”)
• *čudlo (“sense”)

• East Slavic:
  • Ukrainian: чух (čux, “stench”)
• South Slavic:
  • Slovene: čȗh (“stench”)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: čich
  • Polish: czuch, cuch
  • Slovak: čuch
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: čuch
    • Upper Sorbian: čuch

• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “чух”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka