Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xa

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. Cognate with Lithuanian cha cha cha (“ha-ha”), Latvian ha.

*xa or *xa-xa

1. ha ha (sound of laughter)

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: ха (xa); ха-ха́ (xa-xá), ха-ха-ха́ (xa-xa-xá)
  • Russian: ха (xa); ха-ха́ (xa-xá), ха-ха-ха́ (xa-xa-xá)
  • Ukrainian: ха (xa), га (ha); ха-ха́ (xa-xá), ха-ха-ха́ (xa-xa-xá), га-га́ (ha-há), га-га-га́ (ha-ha-há)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: ха (ha); ха̣ (hạ) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: ха (ha); ха хаа (ha haa)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ха̏; ха̑ ха̑

    Latin script: hȁ; hȃ hȃ

  • Slovene: hà; hahȃ
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: cha; chacha
  • Polish: cha-cha, cha cha cha, ha ha ha
  • Slovak: cha
  • Slovincian: ha
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: cha cha cha; ha, haha
    • Upper Sorbian: kha

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xa, *xa-xa”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 7
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “ха”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 145
• Snoj, Marko (2016) “hahȃ”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si