Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xoxotati

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. Compare Ancient Greek καχάζω (kakházō, “to laugh loudly”), Latin cachinnō (“to laugh loudly”), Old Armenian խախանք (xaxankʻ, “laughter”), Proto-West Germanic *kahhattjan, Sanskrit कखति (kákhati, “to laugh”).

*xoxotati

1. to laugh loudly

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: хохота́ть (xoxotátʹ)
  • Ukrainian: хохота́ти (xoxotáty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Church Slavonic: хохотати (xoxotati)
  • Bulgarian: кикотя (kikotja)
  • Macedonian: се ки́коти (se kíkoti)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: хохотати (archaic or rare)

    Latin: hohotati (archaic or rare)

  • Slovene: hohotáti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: chochtat
  • Polish: chichotać
  • Slovak: chichotať sa, chychotať sa
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: chachotać (“to laugh loudly”), chichotać (“to giggle”)
    • Lower Sorbian: chychotaś, chichotaś (“to giggle”)

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “хо́хот”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 353
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*xoxotati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 203
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xoxotati (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 55
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “хо́хот”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress