Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/krajina

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

*krajь (“end, edge”) +‎ *-ina

Noun

*krajina f

region, country, area, county

Declension

Declension of *krajina (hard a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*krajina	*krajině	*krajiny
genitive	*krajiny	*krajinu	*krajinъ
dative	*krajině	*krajinama	*krajinamъ
accusative	*krajinǫ	*krajině	*krajiny
instrumental	krajinojǫ, krajinǫ^**	*krajinama	*krajinami
locative	*krajině	*krajinu	krajinasъ, krajinaxъ^*
vocative	*krajino	*krajině	*krajiny

^* -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).

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: краина (kraina)
  - Old Ruthenian: краина (kraina)
    - Belarusian: краі́на (kraína)
    - Carpathian Rusyn: краи́на (kraýna)
    - Ukrainian: краї́на (krajína)
  - Russian: краи́на (kraína)
South Slavic:
- Macedonian: краина (kraina)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: кра̏јина
  
  Latin script: krȁjina
  - → Albanian: krahinë
- Slovene: krájina, krȃjina
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: krajina
  - Czech: krajina
- Polish: kraina
- Old Slovak: krajina
  - Pannonian Rusyn: країна (krajina)
  - Slovak: krajina
- Slovincian: krajina
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: krajina
  - Upper Sorbian: krajina

References

Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1985), “*krajina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 12 (*koulъkъ – *kroma/*kromъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 87