хоуи

See also: хуй

Old Novgorodian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xȗjь (“penis”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *skaujás, from Proto-Indo-European *skowy-ós, from *skwey- (“needle, prickle, thorn”). Cognate with Russian хуй (xuj), Middle Russian хуй (xuj), Bulgarian хуй (huj), Polish chuj. Originally, this lexeme belonged to the accent paradigm c, oxytone, known from modern Russian, is secondary in this word.^[1]

First attested in c. 1st half ‒ mid-14th century as хуꙗмъ (xujamŭ, ins. sg.) in one of the Pskov Gospels (Tip. 21), in marginalia no. 1 (note in the margins) by priest Savva, on page 1.^[2] The attested form of the word has a pronounced dialectal feature of Old Pskovian, as post-stressed “yakanye” («яканье») ‒ non-distinction of /a/, /e/, /ě/ after palatalised consonants in post-stressed position.^[3]

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: хоу‧и

Noun

хоуи • (xui) m

(Old Pskovian, hapax legomenon, anatomy, vulgar, swear word) cock, dick, penis
- c. 1st half ‒ mid-14th century, Savva, priest, Евангелие апракос полный (Тип. 21)‎^[2], Pskov, рукопись РГАДА, ф. 381. оп. 1. ед. хр. 21, page 1, marginalia 1:
  сикулица · микулица · ꙁ голꙑмъ · х[у]ꙗмъ [·] по оулици ·
  sikulića · mikulića · z golymŭ · x[u]jamŭ [·] po ulići ·
  Clitoris, Mlitoris, with a naked dick [walks] down the street.

Related terms

Old Novgorodian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *skwey- (0 c, 2 e)

References

^ Zaliznyak, Andrey (actor) (October 26, 2012), 23:07 from the start, in Доклад А. А. Зализняка, 26 октября 2012 года (in Russian), Institute for Slavic Studies RAS
^ Krysko, V. B., Ladyzhensky, I. M. (2022) “Поп-сквернослов: Обсценные маргиналии в древнерусском евангелии [A ribald cleric: Obscene marginalia in an Old East Slavic Gospel]”, in Bunčić, Daniel et al., editor, Die Welt der Slaven (in Russian), volume 67, number 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →DOI, →ISBN, page 289
^ Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) “§ 2.36”, in Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect]‎^[1] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: LRC Publishing House, →ISBN, page 75

[1] Zaliznyak, Andrey (actor) (October 26, 2012), 23:07 from the start, in Доклад А. А. Зализняка, 26 октября 2012 года (in Russian), Institute for Slavic Studies RAS

[2] Krysko, V. B., Ladyzhensky, I. M. (2022) “Поп-сквернослов: Обсценные маргиналии в древнерусском евангелии [A ribald cleric: Obscene marginalia in an Old East Slavic Gospel]”, in Bunčić, Daniel et al., editor, Die Welt der Slaven (in Russian), volume 67, number 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →DOI, →ISBN, page 289

[3] Zaliznyak, Andrey (2004) “§ 2.36”, in Древненовгородский диалект [Old Novgorod dialect]‎^[1] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Moscow: LRC Publishing House, →ISBN, page 75

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