Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xrěnъ

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

*xrěnъ

Etymology

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Unclear. Compare Ancient Greek κεράϊν (keráïn, “wild radish”) or Chuvash хӗрен (hĕren) (if not from East Slavic).

For the name compare:

• Radish: German Meerrettich (literally “foreign radish”), English horseradish.
• Root: French raifort (literally “strong root”), Portuguese raiz-forte (literally “strong root”).

Noun

*xrěnъ m

1. horseradish

Inflection

Declension of *xrěnъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*xrěnъ	*xrěna	*xrěni
genitive	*xrěna	*xrěnu	*xrěnъ
dative	*xrěnu	*xrěnoma	*xrěnomъ
accusative	*xrěnъ	*xrěna	*xrěny
instrumental	*xrěnъmь, *xrěnomь*	*xrěnoma	*xrěny
locative	*xrěně	*xrěnu	*xrěněxъ
vocative	*xrěne	*xrěna	*xrěni

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

See also

• *redьky (“radish”)

Derived terms

• *xrěnovъ (adj.)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: хрѣнъ (xrěnŭ), хрѣнь (xrěnĭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: хрѣнъ (xrěn)
      • Belarusian: хрэн (xren)
      • Ukrainian: хрін (xrin)
    • Russian: хрен (xren), хрень (xrenʹ)
      • → Kyrgyz: хрен (hren)
      • → Erzya: крён (kŕon)
      • → Uzbek: xren
  • → Chuvash: хӗрен (hĕren) (possibly)
    • → Western Mari: ӹрӓн (ÿrän) (possibly)
    • → Bashkir: керән (kerən) (possibly)
    • → Tatar: керән (kerän) (possibly)
  • → Lithuanian: kriẽnas, kriená
  • → Samogitian: krėins
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Church Slavonic: хрѣнъ (xrěnŭ) (Serbian)
  • Bulgarian: хрян (hrjan), рен (ren)
  • Macedonian: рен (ren)
  • Serbo-Croatian: хре̏н, ре̏н
  • Slovene: hrȅn (tonal orthography)
  • → Romanian: hrean
  • → Greek: χρένο (chréno), χράνος (chrános)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: křěn, chřěn
    • Czech: křen
  • Kashubian: chrzón, krzón
  • Polabian: xŕon
  • Old Polish: chrzan
    • Polish: chrzan
  • Slovak: chren
  • Slovincian: krzón
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: chrěn, krěn
    • Lower Sorbian: kśěn, chrěn
  • → Vilamovian: krejn
  • → Middle High German: krên, krêne, chrên
    • Bavarian: Kren
    • East Central German: Krên
    • German: Kren
      • → French: cran, cranson
      • → Italian: cren
  • → Venetian: cren

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Yiddish: כריין (khreyn)
    • → Dutch: chrein
    • → English: chrain
  • → Esperanto: kreno

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “хрен”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “хрен”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 356
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xrěnъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 91
• http://www.ruslang.ru/doc/etymology/1976/09-l%27vov.pdf
• http://vja.ruslang.ru/archive/1974-4.pdf#page=109