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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kręnǫti

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 an earlier *krętnǫti, formed as *krętati (to languish, to perturb) + *-nǫti, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kert- (to cut, to turn) (or possibly from a depalatalized form of Proto-Indo-European *ḱert- (to increase, to grow)).

Verb

*kręnǫ̀ti pf (imperfective *krętati)[1]

  1. to lift, to transit
    Synonym: *dvignǫti
  2. to move barely

Inflection

Derived terms

  • *kręniti (to turn)
  • *kręnovati (to wend)

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: крану́ць (kranúcʹ)
    • Russian: кря́нуть (krjánutʹ)
    • Ukrainian: кря́нути (krjánuty, to strike) (dialectal)[2]
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: крѧнѫти (kręnǫti)
    • Bulgarian: кре́на (kréna), кре́вам (krévam), dial. кретнува́м (kretnuvám)
    • Macedonian: крене (krene)
    • Serbo-Croatian: krénuti
    • Slovene: krenīti (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: křátnouti[3]

Further reading

References

  1. Snoj, Marko (2016), krenīti”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “*krę(t)nǫ̋ti”
  2. Hrinchenko, Borys, editor (1924), крянути”, in Словарь української мови [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Russian), volume 1: А – Н, Berlin: Ukrainske Slowo, page 853
  3. František Št. Kott (1878), křátnouti”, in Česko-německý slovník zvláště grammaticko-fraseologický (in Czech), Prague: Josef Kolář, page 806
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