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=== Khuy ===

''Khuy'' ({{lang|ru|[[wikt:хуй|хуй]]; {{audio|Ru-Khuy.ogg|хуй}}}}), often also written in Latin as "hui" or even "hooy" by Russian schoolchildren/beginners in their English studies, means "cock", "[[penis]]", or for an equivalent colloquial register: "[[Dick (slang)|dick]]". The etymology of the term is unclear. Mainstream theories include from [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo European]] (PIE) *''ks-u-'', related to ''хвоя'' (''khvoya'', "pine needles"), attributed to Pederson, 1908.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://monstar.nnover.ru/blog/abuse/27651.html#Comments| title= Comments| website= monstar.nnover.ru| access-date= 16 March 2007| archive-date= 9 May 2007| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070509170209/http://monstar.nnover.ru/blog/abuse/27651.html#Comments| url-status= dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.philology.ru/linguistics2/kovalyov-05.htm| website= philology.ru| trans-title= Russian Mat – Consequences of Destruction of the Taboo; Cultural taboos and their influence on the result of communication |author= Voronezh| year= 2005| pages= 184–197| script-title=ru:РУССКИЙ МАТ – СЛЕДСТВИЕ УНИЧТОЖЕНИЯ ТАБУ (Культурные табу и их влияние на результат коммуникации.)| access-date= 6 September 2017| language= ru}}</ref> 

From PIE *hau-, related to ''хвост'' (''khvost'', "tail"), attributed to Merlingen, 1955; from [[Mongolian language|Mongolian]] хуй (''khui'', meaning "sheath" or "scabbard"). This was the etymology endorsed by the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] government and attributed to [[Maxim Gorky]], who claimed it was a loan word, imposed during the [[Mongol yoke]]. Alexander Gorokhovski suggests the derivation from the [[Latin language|Latin]] ''huic'' (lit. ''"for that"'', used on prescriptions for genital diseases) as a [[euphemism]], because the old Russian ''"ud/uda"'' (from PIE root *''ud-'' meaning ''"up, out"'') became taboo in the mid-18th century.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.russki-mat.net/e/mat_Gorokhovski.htm | website= russki-mat.net| script-title=ru:Матерщина: седая древность и цветущая юность| trans-title= Foul language: gray antiquity and blooming youth| first= A. | last= Gorokhovsky| language= ru| access-date= 6 September 2017}}</ref> 

The first volume of the ''Great Dictionary of Mat'' by the Russian linguist and folklorist {{ill|Aleksey Plutser-Sarno|ru|Плуцер-Сарно, Алексей Юрьевич}} treats only expressions with the stem ''хуй'' (''khuy''), numbering over 500 entries; 12 volumes are planned.{{cn|date=December 2023}} The word ''khuy'' also appears in various other Slavic languages with the same meaning and pronunciation but not always the same spelling, such as the [[Polish profanity|Polish]] ''chuj''.

A minor [[internet meme]] swept the Russian segment of the internet with a clip from the Chinese play ''[[Li Huiniang]]'', where the heroine's name was repeated several times, which for a Russian ear sounds like "khuynya" ({{lang|ru|хуйня}}), an obscene term for something unknown or unimportant or strange.<ref>Николай Ищущий, [https://proza.ru/2024/06/28/100 *** Ня? Шинима *** ня?], ''proza.ru''</ref>