Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/krь(jь)

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-Indo-European *kris.

Adverb

*krь(jь)

1. (dialectal) around, nearby

Related terms

• *krajь (“end, boundary”)
• *krojiti (“to devise, to cut out”)

Derived terms

• *jьzkrь

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: крей (krej), кри (kri) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: кре (kre, “at”), кръй (krǎj, “around”) (dialectal)

References

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*krь(jь)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page 73
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1979), “кре”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 2 (и – крепя̀), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 727
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “кръй, кр'ъй”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 42