Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xoldъ

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.

Unclear.

• Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (reconstructed by Illich-Svitych as *(s)gel- in order to accommodate the Slavic data), in which case it is cognate with Latin gelidus (“cool, icy”), English cold, Sanskrit जड (jaḍa), but initial *x- is hard to explain.
• Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelH-, in which case it is cognate with Lithuanian šáltas (“cold”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬙𐬀 (sar^əta), Persian سرد (sard), Ossetian салд (sald), but initial *x- is likewise hard to explain.

*xȏldъ m

1. cold, coolness

• *goldъ (“hunger”)
• *golotь (“ice crystal”)
• *želdь, *želdica (“hail, frost”)
• *solna (“hoarfrost”)

• *koldędzь, *koldenьcь, *koldьcь (“well”)

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: хо́лад (xólad)
  • Russian: хо́лод (xólod)
  • Ukrainian: хо́лод (xólod)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: хладъ (xladŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱈⰾⰰⰴⱏ (xladŭ)

  • Bulgarian: хлад (hlad)
  • Macedonian: лад (lad)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: хла̑д

    Latin script: hlȃd

    • Chakavian (Vrgada): hlᵒȃd (“shade”), gen. hlᵒȃda
    • Chakavian (Novi): hlȃd (“shade”)
    • Chakavian (Orbanići): hlȃt (“shade”), gen. hlȃda
  • Slovene: hlȃd (“coolness”) (tonal orthography); dialectal hlad (“shadow”)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: chlad
    • Czech: chlad
  • Kashubian: chłód
  • Polabian: xlåd
  • Polish: chłód
  • Slovak: chlad
  • Slovincian: chlôd
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: chłód, gen. chłoda
    • Lower Sorbian: chłodk (“coolness, shade”)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “холод”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xoldъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 57