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English

Holodomor

Holodomor comes from Ukrainian го́лод ‘hunger, famine’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *g⁽ʷ⁾eldʰ- ‘to desire greedily , to wish’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*g⁽ʷ⁾eldʰ-‘to desire greedily , to wish’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*g⁽ʷ⁾oldʰ-ó-sreconstructed
  3. Proto-Balto-Slavicc. 2000–500 BCE*galdásreconstructed
  4. Proto-Slavicc. 400–900 CE*goldъ‘hunger’reconstructed
  5. Old East Slavicmodernголодъ
  6. Ukrainianmodernго́лодhólod‘hunger, famine’
  7. Ukrainian, derivedmodernГолодомо́рHolodomór
  8. Englishearliest quotation 1990Holodomor

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*g⁽ʷ⁾eldʰ-‘to desire greedily , to wish’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*g⁽ʷ⁾oldʰ-ó-sreconstructed
  3. Proto-Balto-Slavicc. 2000–500 BCE*galdásreconstructed
  4. Proto-Slavicc. 400–900 CE*goldъ‘hunger’reconstructed
  5. Old East Slavicmodernголодъ
  6. Ukrainianmodernго́лодhólod‘hunger, famine’
  7. Ukrainian, derivedmodernГолодомо́рHolodomór
  8. Englishearliest quotation 1990Holodomor

Earliest quotation: 1990, Oral History of the Commission on the Uk, Washington: “In 1928 the village was divided into kulaks, middle-peasants,…”

The story

Not related to Holocaust.

Every English word from Proto-Indo-European *g⁽ʷ⁾eldʰ-

Today it means

name The 1932–33 famine affecting rural Ukraine and other territories of the Soviet Union, a result of the forced collectivization of land-owning peasants by the Soviet government.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *g⁽ʷ⁾eldʰ- / Holodomor

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