Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kruxъ

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 *kraušas, from Proto-Indo-European *krows-o-s, from Proto-Indo-European *krews-.

Noun

*kruxъ m

chunk

Inflection

Declension of *kruxъ (hard o-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kruxъ	*kruxa	*kruśi
genitive	*kruxa	*kruxu	*kruxъ
dative	*kruxu	*kruxoma	*kruxomъ
accusative	*kruxъ	*kruxa	*kruxy
instrumental	kruxъmь, kruxomь^*	*kruxoma	*kruxy
locative	*kruśě	*kruxu	*kruśěxъ
vocative	*kruše	*kruxa	*kruśi

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Related terms

*krъxa
*krъxъ

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Russian: крух (krux) (dialectal)
- Ukrainian: крух (krux)
South Slavic:
- ⇒ Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: оукроухъ (ukruxŭ)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⱆⰽⱃⱆⱈⱏ (ukruxŭ)
- Church Slavonic: крухъ (kruxŭ)
- Bulgarian: крух (kruh) (dialectal)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: кру̏х
  
  Latin script: krȕh
- Slovene: kruh
West Slavic:
- Czech: kruch
- Polish: kruch
- Slovak: kruch (dialectal)
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: kruch

References

Derksen, Rick (2008) “*kruxъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 252
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “крух”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress