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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Uncertain. Common theories from the 20th century derive it from an Iranian origin, the root word being a third-century Scytho-Sarmatian form allegedly attested in the Tanais Tablets as Χορούαθος (Khoroúathos), Χοροάθος (Khoroáthos) and Χορόαθος (Khoróathos), probably the name of the ruler of a city in that region, near the mouth of the river Don;[1] this has also been corroborated with names on ancient gravestones in Tanais, which gives some credence to the interpretation as a clan name.[2] A similar name for a tribe of the north Caucasus occurs in the tenth-century De Ceremoniis as Krevatās, Krevatades.[3] On the other hand, modern scholars such as Matasović tend to dismiss these as coincidences with respect to the Croatian ethnonym,[4] and consider the identification of the relevant Scytho-Caucasian tribes with Slavs implausible on historical and geographic grounds; nonetheless, an ultimate Iranian origin is regarded as plausible. See Etymology of Croatia on Wikipedia for a detailed discussion of the various hypotheses.
Noun
*xъrvatъ m[5]
- (Common Slavic) Croat
Declension
Possibly accent paradigm a?
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
References
- ^ Gluhak, Alemko (1993) “Hr̀vāt”, in Hrvatski etimološki rječnik [Croatian Etymology Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, →ISBN
- ^ Škegro, Ante (2005) “Two Public Inscriptions from the Greek Colony of Tanais at the Mouth of the Don River on the Sea of Azov”, in Review of Croatian History, volume I, number 1, pages 9–28
- ^ Marčinko, Mato (2000) “Tragovi i podrijetlo imena Hrvat [Traces and origin of the Croatian name]”, in Naklada Jurčić, Indoiransko podrijetlo Hrvata [Indo-Iranian origin of Croats], →ISBN, page 184
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2019) “Ime Hrvata [The Name of Croats]”, in Jezik, volume 66, number 3, Zagreb: Croatian Philological Society, pages 81–97
- ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xъrvat(in)ъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 149
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “хорва́т”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress