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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/krina
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Unknown, speculated to be resultant to *kriti (“*to twist, to make curved; *to make circulate; to purchase”) also found in *krivъ (“curved”).
Inflection
Declension of *krina (hard a-stem)
singular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | *krina | *krině | *kriny |
genitive | *kriny | *krinu | *krinъ |
dative | *krině | *krinama | *krinamъ |
accusative | *krinǫ | *krině | *kriny |
instrumental | *krinojǫ, *krinǫ** | *krinama | *krinami |
locative | *krině | *krinu | *krinasъ, *krinaxъ* |
vocative | *krino | *krině | *kriny |
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: křinka (obsolete)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: kśinka, kśinica
- Upper Sorbian: křinka
- Non-Slavic:
- → Albanian: krinë
- → Greek: κρινί (kriní)
- → Romanian: crintă
See also
- *krinica (“a kind of water-pit”)
Further reading
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “крина”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 13
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1985), “*krina, *krinъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 12 (*koulъkъ – *kroma/*kromъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 156
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “кринка”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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