хаща

Old Ruthenian
хаща (sense 1)

Alternative forms
  • гаща (hašča)

Etymology

By surface analysis, хащъ (xašč) +‎ -а (-a). Compare Polish chaszcze.

Noun

хаща • (xašča) f

  1. forest (mostly dense, impassable), thicket
nouns

Descendants
  • Belarusian: га́шча (hášča), го́шча (hóšča), ґа́шта (gášta)
  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Further reading
  • Dydyk-Meush, H. M.; Slobodzianyk, O. Z. (2015), “хаща (гаща)”, in Українські краєвиди XVI–XVIII ст. [Ukrainian landscapes of 16ᵗʰ–18ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), Lviv: Kolo, →ISBN, page 334
  • Dezső, László (1996), “хаща”, in Деловая письменность русинов в XVII–XVIII вв. [Rusyn Business Writing in the 17ᵗʰ–18ᵗʰ c.], Nyíregyháza: Bessenyei György Tanárképző Főiskola; Ukrán és Ruszin Filológiai Tanszék, page 175
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