Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xarati

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.

From *xarъ +‎ *-ati.

*xarati^[1]

1. to clean, to scrape

• *xariti
• *xarobylьje n, *xarobura f
• *xaropǫditi
• *xorъ (“dark, black”)
  • *xorxoriti (“to brag, show off; to be defiant”)
  • *xorostь (“beauty, pleasantness; convenience”)
    • *xoroščьnъ (“beautiful; good”)
  • *xorovitъ (“beautiful; kind, fine”)

• East Slavic:
  • ⇒ Ukrainian: (dialectal) хара́тати (xarátaty, “to castrate (remove the testicles of)”)^[2]
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: (dialectal) ха́рам (háram, “to roam, to wander, to disturb”)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ха̏рати, арати

    Latin script: hȁrati, arati

  • Slovene: hárati (“to beat, to pound”) (tonal orthography)

• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “харити”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 158