Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xalěpa

Etymology
. Etymological hypotheses follow two lines of logic:
 * Petersson: Derived from /, cognate with South Slavic mythological creature and possibly 🇨🇬 (the later rejected by Vasmer). Berneker further adds as a potential cognate dialectal 🇨🇬. Possibly akin to 🇨🇬.
 * Trubačev: Compound of . First element, perhaps from 🇨🇬, . Compare analogous development in 🇨🇬, from.

Perhaps, parallel to ē-ablauted, found in dialectal 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

A secondary meaning “trouble, hardship”, attested in Ukrainian and South Russian (Kursk oblast), may have been borrowed independently from 🇨🇬 or has evolved via semantic shift alike - a negation of earleir.

Noun

 * 1) bad weather
 * 2) slush, mire
 * 1) slush, mire

Descendants

 * East Slavic: