Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xula

Main lines of reasoning:

• Of onomatopoeic or expressive origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kew- (“to shout, to scold”), originally meaning “taunt”. Related to Proto-Slavic *čьvati, *ščьvati (“to bark, to slander, to harass”).
• Of physical nature, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ksew- (“to scrape, to injure”), originally meaning “physical attack, offend”. Related to Proto-Slavic *xudъ (“injured, weak”), possibly Proto-Slavic *xytiti (“to assault”).

*xulà f[1][2]

1. unjust vilification, verbal offence → blasphemy (in religion)

   Synonym: *kleveta

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• *xuliti (“to vilify, to offend”)
  • *xulьnъ (“insulting”)
• *xulovati (“to commit blasphemy”)
• *xulostь, *xulьstvo (“sacrilege, blasphemy”)

• *xyliti (sę) (“to cripple, to bend down”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: хула (xula)
    • Old Ruthenian: хула́ (xulá)
      • Belarusian: хула́ (xulá) (dialectal)
      • Ukrainian: хула́ (xulá)
    • Russian: хула́ (xulá)
  • Belarusian: ху́ла (xúla, “scolding”)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: хоула (xula)

    Glagolitic script: ⱈⱆⰾⰰ (xula)

    • Church Slavonic: хоула (xula) (Serbian, Russian)
  • Bulgarian: ху́ла (húla)
  • Macedonian: хула (hula) (literary)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ху̏ла (dialectal)

    Latin script: hȕla (dialectal)

  • Slovene: húla (poetic)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “хула”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. & suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xula I”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), issue 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 114