Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xala

Etymology 1
Per Snoj and Trubačev, from, , perhaps an action/resultant noun of or substantivized from the l-participle of 🇨🇬, ultimately from. Trubačev further identifies this term with Etymology 2.

Noun

 * 1) something torn, shattered, worn-out
 * 2)  cheap cloth, rag

Descendants

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Etymology 2
Unclear. Several proposed etymologies exist:
 * Based on sense “hail, blizzard, tempest”:
 * Borrowed origin: According to Iv. Georgieva, from some dialectal form of, likely cognate with 🇨🇬.
 * Native grammatical origin: Per Brückner, related to (of disputed origin), . Possibly akin to Etymology 1 + 🇨🇬 and further to 🇨🇬.
 * Based on sense “typhon, calamity”:
 * Native or borrowed expressive origin: Per M. Bjeletić, from , or from  (whence 🇨🇬).
 * Onomatopoeic origin: Per Iljinsky, possibly akin to semi-onomatopoeic, . Favoured by Trubačev and Meljničuk (ESSJa).
 * Substantivized origin: Perhaps from a substantivization of, , related to the above hypothesis.
 * Based on sense “dragon” in Serbian and Macedonian:
 * Recent borrowing from Ottoman Turkish: According to early Serbo-Croatian philologists, South Slavic term has developed from 🇨🇬, euphemistic for . Correspondances in other branches are presumably coincidental. Disputed on phonetical basis by Trubačev, Brückner, and some Serbo-Croatian linguists.

Skok does not exclude contamination of various sources.

Noun

 * 1)  tempest, blizzard, hail-bringer depicted as a serpentine or ichthyoid monster, as a stormy nebula, or personified as a witch

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