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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

Descendants

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

See also

Further reading

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