Etymograph

English

khokhol

Khokhol comes from Russian хохо́л ‘Ukrainian (pejorative)’, and goes back to Proto-Slavic *xoxolъ ‘crest, topknot, tuft of hair or feathers’.

  1. Proto-Slavicc. 400–900 CE*xoxolъ‘crest, topknot, tuft of hair or feathers’reconstructed
  2. Old East Slavicmodernхохолъxoxolŭ
  3. Russianmodernхохо́лxoxól‘Ukrainian (pejorative)’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1854khokhol

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Slavicc. 400–900 CE*xoxolъ‘crest, topknot, tuft of hair or feathers’reconstructed
  2. Old East Slavicmodernхохолъxoxolŭ
  3. Russianmodernхохо́лxoxól‘Ukrainian (pejorative)’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1854khokhol

Earliest quotation: 1854, Ivan Golovin, The Nations of Russia and Turkey and Their Destiny: “The Great Russians ought to be carefully distinguished from…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *kes- ‘to comb, scratch’

hair, herring, hards, xylem, xylitol, 7 more

Today it means

noun A Ukrainian.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Slavic *xoxolъ / khokhol

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