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.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

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

Verb

*xoxotati

to laugh loudly

Inflection

Conjugation of *xoxotati, *xoxota, *xoxoťetь (?, -a/j-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Suffix: *-ati

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*xoxotanьje	*xoxotati	*xoxotatъ	*xoxotalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*xoxotanъ	*xoxoťemъ
Active	*xoxotavъ	*xoxoťę

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*xoxotaxъ	*xoxota	*xoxota	*xoxoťǫ	*xoxoťeši	*xoxoťetь
Dual	*xoxotaxově	*xoxotasta	*xoxotaste	*xoxoťevě	*xoxoťeta	*xoxoťete
Plural	*xoxotaxomъ	*xoxotaste	*xoxotašę	*xoxoťemъ	*xoxoťete	*xoxoťǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*xoxotaaxъ	*xoxotaaše	*xoxotaaše	—	*xoxoťi	*xoxoťi
Dual	*xoxotaaxově	*xoxotaašeta	*xoxotaašete	*xoxoťivě	*xoxoťita	—
Plural	*xoxotaaxomъ	*xoxotaašete	*xoxotaaxǫ	*xoxoťimъ	*xoxoťite	—

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Russian: хохота́ть (xoxotátʹ), 1sg. хохочу́ (xoxočú), 3sg. хохо́чет (xoxóčet)
- Ukrainian: хохота́ти (xoxotáty)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  - Church Slavonic: хохотати (xoxotati)
- Bulgarian: кикотя (kikotja)
- Macedonian: се ки́коти (se kíkoti)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: хохотати (archaic or rare)
  
  Latin: hohotati (archaic or rare)
- Slovene: hohotáti (tonal orthography), 1sg. hohotȃm, hohọ́čem (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Czech: chochtat, 1sg. chochtám
- Polish: chichotać
- Slovak: chichotať sa, chychotať sa
- Slovincian: χóχotac (“to laugh, to giggle”) (Sychta's dictionary)
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: chachotać (“to laugh loudly”), chichotać (“to giggle”)
  - Lower Sorbian: chychotaś, chichotaś (“to giggle”)

References

Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993), “хо́хот”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), 3rd edition, 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), issue 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 55
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “хо́хот”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress

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