Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/krina

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

Unknown, speculated to be resultant to *kriti (“*to twist, to make curved; *to make circulate; to purchase”) also found in *krivъ (“curved”).

Noun

*krina f

  1. a kind of bulbous container thinner and open on the top, calabash so to say

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).

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: крина (krina), крин (krin)
  • South Slavic:
    • ⇒ Old Church Slavonic: криница (krinica)
    • Bulgarian: кри́на (krína) (dialectal, archaic), кри́ница (krínica), кри́нка (krínka)
    • Serbo-Croatian: (obsolete)
      Cyrillic script: крина, кри̏ња
      Latin script: krina, krȉnja
    • Slovene: krínja (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: křinka (obsolete)
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: kśinka, kśinica
      • Upper Sorbian: křinka
  • Non-Slavic:
    • → Albanian: krinë
    • → Aromanian: crinã
    • → Greek: κρινί (kriní), κρίνα (krína)
    • → Romanian: crintă

See also

Further reading

  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “крина”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 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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