хаща

Old Ruthenian

хаща (sense 1)

Alternative forms

  • гаща (hašča)

Etymology

By surface analysis, хащъ (xašč) + (-a). Compare Polish chaszcze.

Noun

хаща • (xašča) f

  1. forest (mostly dense, impassable), thicket
nouns

Descendants

  • Belarusian: га́шча (hášča), го́шча (hóšča), ґа́шта (gášta)
  • Ukrainian: ха́ща (xášča), ха́щі́ pl (xáščí); хващі́ pl (xvaščí) (dialectal)

Further reading

  • Dydyk-Meush, H. M., Slobodzianyk, O. Z. (2015) “хаща (гаща)”, in Українські краєвиди XVI–XVIII ст. [Ukrainian landscapes of 16ᵗʰ–18ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), Lviv: Kolo, →ISBN, page 334
  • Dezső, László (1996) “хаща”, in Деловая письменность русинов в XVII–XVIII вв. [Rusyn Business Writing in the 17ᵗʰ–18ᵗʰ c.], Nyíregyháza: Bessenyei György Tanárképző Főiskola; Ukrán és Ruszin Filológiai Tanszék, page 175

Ukrainian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Ruthenian хаща (xašča).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈxaʃt͡ʃɐ]

Noun

ха́ща • (xášča) f inan (genitive ха́щі, nominative plural ха́щі, genitive plural ха́щів)

  1. (often in the plural) a dense forest, a thicket

Declension

Further reading

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