क्री

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *kray-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kray-, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷreyh₂-. Cognate with Welsh prynu, Old Irish crenaid, Ancient Greek ἐπριάμην (epriámēn), Proto-Slavic *krьnǫti, Tocharian B käry- (“to buy”), karyor (“buying”).

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kɾiː/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /kɾiː/

Root

क्री • (krī)

1. to buy

Descendants

• क्रय (krayá, “buying, purchase”)
• क्रयण (kráyaṇa, “buying”)
• क्रयणीय (krayaṇīya, “to be bought”)
• क्रयिन् (krayin, “buyer, purchaser”)
• क्रय्य (krayya, “for sale, purchasable”)
• क्रायक (krāyaka, “buyer, trader”)
• क्रीणाति (krīṇā́ti, “he buys”)
• क्रेतव्य (kretavya, “purchasable”)
• क्रेतृ (kretṛ, “buyer, purchaser”)
• क्रेय (kreya, “purchasable”)
• यवक्री (yavakrī, “a buyer or purchaser of barley”)
• सद्यःक्री (sadyaḥkrī, “bought on the same day”)

 

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “क्री”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 321.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 25