Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xoxolъ

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 earlier *koxolъ (cf. Slovak kochol), itself possibly from earlier *kosolъ, from *kosa (“hair”) +‎ *-olъ. The irregular development of the word may have been influenced by the semantically close *vьrxolъ (“tip, peak”).^[1]

*xoxolъ m

1. crest, topknot, tuft of hair or feathers

   Synonyms: *čubъ, *čupъ

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: хахо́л (xaxól)
  • Middle Russian: хохолъ (xoxol) (17ᵗʰ cent.)
    • Russian: хохо́л (xoxól, “crest, topknot; khokhol”)
      • → Polish: chachoł (“khokhol”)
  • Ukrainian: хохо́л (xoxól); хахо́л (xaxól) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: хо̂́ха̣л (hốhạl, “ragamuffin”) (dialectal)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: chochol
  • Old Polish: chochoł
    • Polish: chochoł, chochół; χaχůu̯ (“forelock, crest, collar”) (dialectal)
  • Slovak: chochol; chochel (dialectal)
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: chochoł
    • Upper Sorbian: khochoł

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xoxolъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 54
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “хохо́л”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 205
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “хохол”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress