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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/krivъ

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kréiwas, from Proto-Indo-European *kreywos. Cognate with Latvian krievs, Lithuanian kreivas, krivis, Latin curvus (from zero-grade) and indirectly Latvian krails, Old Irish cruind, and Ancient Greek κορωνός (korōnós).

Adjective

*krȋvъ[1][2]

  1. crooked, bent
  2. wrong
  3. guilty
  4. lame

Inflection

Accent paradigm c.

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: кривъ (krivŭ), кривꙑи (krivyi)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: кривъ (krivŭ)
      Glagolitic: ⰽⱃⰹⰲⱏ (krivŭ)
    • Bulgarian: крив (kriv)
    • Macedonian: крив (kriv)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: кри̑в
      Latin script: krȋv
    • Slovene: krȋv (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: křivý
    • Polabian: kraivĕ
    • Polish: krzywy
    • Slovak: krivý
    • Slovincian: krzëwy
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: křiwy
      • Lower Sorbian: kśiwy

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “кривой”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1985), “*krivъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 12 (*koulъkъ – *kroma/*kromъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 171

References

  1. Olander, Thomas (2001) “krivъ kriva krivo”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:c skæv, krum (SA 109; PR 138)
  2. Snoj, Marko (2016) “krȋv”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si:*krȋvъ
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