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)
    • Russian: кри́на (krína), oftener кри́нка (krínka), sometimes кры́нка (krýnka)
• 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
  • → Greek: κρινί (kriní)
  • → Romanian: crintă

See also

• *krinica (“a kind of water-pit”)

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