Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kruxъ

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-Balto-Slavic *kraušas, from Proto-Indo-European *krows-o-s, from Proto-Indo-European *krews-.

Noun

*kruxъ m

1. chunk

Inflection

Declension of *kruxъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kruxъ	*kruxa	*kruśi
genitive	*kruxa	*kruxu	*kruxъ
dative	*kruxu	*kruxoma	*kruxomъ
accusative	*kruxъ	*kruxa	*kruxy
instrumental	*kruxъmь, *kruxomь*	*kruxoma	*kruxy
locative	*kruśě	*kruxu	*kruśěxъ
vocative	*kruše	*kruxa	*kruśi

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

Related terms

• *krъxa
• *krъxъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: крух (krux) (dialectal)
  • Ukrainian: крух (krux)
• South Slavic:
  • ⇒ Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: оукроухъ (ukruxŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱆⰽⱃⱆⱈⱏ (ukruxŭ)

  • Church Slavonic: крухъ (kruxŭ)
  • Bulgarian: крух (kruh) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: кру̏х

    Latin script: krȕh

  • Slovene: kruh
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: kruch
  • Polish: kruch
  • Slovak: kruch (dialectal)
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: kruch

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*kruxъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 252
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “крух”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress