Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/krajina

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

*krajь (“end, edge”) +‎ *-ina

Noun

*krajina f

1. frontier area, boundary area
2. region, area, county

Declension

Declension of *krajina (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*krajina	*krajině	*krajiny
genitive	*krajiny	*krajinu	*krajinъ
dative	*krajině	*krajinama	*krajinamъ
accusative	*krajinǫ	*krajině	*krajiny
instrumental	*krajinojǫ, *krajinǫ**	*krajinama	*krajinami
locative	*krajině	*krajinu	*krajinasъ, *krajinaxъ*
vocative	*krajino	*krajině	*krajiny

^* -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:
  • Belarusian: краі́на (kraína)
  • Russian: краи́на (kraína)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: крайна (krajna), країна (krajina)
  • Ukrainian: краї́на (krajína)
• South Slavic:
  • Macedonian: краина (kraina)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: кра̏јина

    Latin script: krȁjina

    • → Albanian: krahinë
  • Slovene: krájina, krȃjina
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: krajina
    • Czech: krajina
  • Polish: kraina
  • Slovak: krajina
  • Slovincian: krai̯ina, krajina
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: krajina
    • Upper Sorbian: krajina

References

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1985), “*krajina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 12 (*koulъkъ – *kroma/*kromъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 87