Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xormъ

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.

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kormós.

Cognate with Ancient Greek κορμός (kormós, “trunk of tree, log of timber”).

*xormъ m

1. wooden building

• Old East Slavic: хоромъ (xoromŭ)
  • Belarusian: хо́рам (xóram)
  • Russian: хоро́мы (xorómy) (plurale tantum)
  • Ukrainian: хоро́м (xoróm), хоро́ми (xorómy) (plurale tantum)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: храмъ (xramŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱈⱃⰰⰿⱏ (xramŭ)

    • → Old East Slavic: храмъ (xramŭ)
      • Belarusian: храм (xram)
      • Russian: храм (xram)
        • → Polish: chram
      • Ukrainian: храм (xram)
  • Bulgarian: храм (hram)
  • Macedonian: храм (hram)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: хра̑м

    Latin script: hrȃm

  • Slovene: hràm (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: chrám
    • Czech: chrám
  • Slovak: chrám
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: chrom

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Romanian: hram

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “хоро́мы”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress