Krieche

German

Etymology

From Middle High German krieche, Old High German *krieha, *kriha only attested in compound Old High German krihboum, kriehboum, kriehhenboum. Origin uncertain, suspected to be = Grieche (“Greek”), but no such thing is known in Latin or Greek and there is no discernible reason why any of the denoted species could be perceived as Greek.

Cognates

Also found in Middle Low German krike, kreke, Low German Kreke, Kreike, Middle Dutch crieke, Dutch kriek, Danish kræge, Norwegian kræge, Swedish krikon, English crocket, Germanic borrowings Old French creke, creque, French crèque, Old Prussian krichaytos (with some suffix), Lithuanian kryklė, Latvian kriķis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkriːçə/, [ˈkriːçə], [ˈkʁiːçə]

Noun

Krieche f (genitive Krieche, plural Kriechen)

1. wild small Prunus fruit
   1. bullace (Prunus domestica ssp. insititia)
   2. (obsolete, dialectal) sloe (Prunus domestica)
   3. (obsolete, dialectal) sour cherry (Prunus cerasus)

Declension

Declension of Krieche [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Krieche	die	Kriechen
genitive	einer	der	Krieche	der	Kriechen
dative	einer	der	Krieche	den	Kriechen
accusative	eine	die	Krieche	die	Kriechen

Further reading

• “Krieche” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• Hehn, Victor with Schrader, Otto (1911) Kulturpflanzen und Haustiere in ihrem Übergang aus Asien nach Griechenland und Italien sowie in das übrige Europa‎^[1] (in German), 8^th edition, Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, page 384