полох

From Proto-Slavic *polxъ. Cognate with Ukrainian поло́х (polóx, “fear”), по́лох (pólox, “horror”), Russian Church Slavonic плахъ (plaxŭ, “fear”), Bulgarian плах (plah, “timid; fear”), Serbo-Croatian пла̏х (“fast, sharp”), Slovene plȃh (“timid”), Czech plachý (“timid”), Slovak plachý (“timid”), Polish płochy (“timid, frivolous”). Per Vasmer, probably related to Ancient Greek πάλλω (pállō, “to excite”), Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌼𐌰 (usfilma, “frightened, horrified”).

• IPA^(key): [pɐˈlox]

поло́х • (polóx) m inan (genitive поло́ха, nominative plural поло́хи, genitive plural поло́хов)

1. (dated, rare) fear, fright

• полоши́ть (pološítʹ)
• всполо́х (vspolóx)
• споло́х (spolóx)
• переполо́х (perepolóx)
• чертополо́х (čertopolóx)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “полох”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv O. N., Moscow: Progress