крига

From *кра (“ice floe”) +‎ -ига (“diminutive suffix”). Inherited from Old East Slavic кра (kra), derived from икра́ (ikrá), from Proto-Slavic *jьkrà. Cognate with archaic Russian кра (kra) and Old Czech kra.

кри́га • (transliteration needed) ?

1. ice floe

• Belarusian: кры́га (krýha)
  • → Polish: kryha
• Rusyn: кри́га (krýha, “ice”)
• Ukrainian: кри́га (krýha, “ice”)
  • → Slovak: kryha
• → Russian: кри́га (kríga), кры́га (krýga) (dialectal)

• Bulyka, A. M., editor (1997), “крига II”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), issue 16 (коржъ – лесничанка), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 139
• Tymchenko, E. K. (2002), “крига”, in Nimchuk, V. V., editor, Матеріали до словника писемної та книжної української мови XV–XVIII ст. [Materials for the Dictionary of the Written and Book Ukrainian Language of the 15ᵗʰ – 18ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volume 1 (А – Н), Kyiv, New York: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S., →ISBN, page 385

Inherited from Old Ruthenian кри́га.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkrɪɦɐ]

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кри́га • (krýha) f inan (genitive кри́ги, nominative plural кри́ги, genitive plural криг, related adjective крижани́й)

1. (uncountable) ice
2. (countable) block of ice

• лід (lid)