krv

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kry, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *krū́ˀs, from Proto-Indo-European *kréwh₂s (“blood of a wound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kr̂ːʋ/

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Noun

kȓv f (Cyrillic spelling кр̑в)

1. blood
2. gore
3. (figuratively) descent, family

Declension

Declension of krv

	singular	plural
nominative	kȓv	kȓvi
genitive	kȓvi	kȓvi
dative	kȓvi	kȓvima
accusative	kȓv	kȓvi
vocative	kȓv	kȓvi
locative	kȓvi	kȓvima
instrumental	kȓvlju / kȓvi	kȓvima

Synonyms

• (Croatia) kri

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Slavomolisano

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian krv.

Noun

krv m

1. blood

Declension

    declension of krv (inan series-1a masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	krv	krva
genitive	krva	krvi
dative	krvu	krvi
accusative	krv	krva
locative	krvu	krva
instrumental	krvom, krvam	krvi

References

• Antonietta Marra (2012), “Contact phenomena in the Slavic of Molise: some remarks about nouns and prepositional phrases” in Morphologies in Contact.

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Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kry, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *krū́ˀs, from Proto-Indo-European *kréwh₂s (“blood of a wound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkr̩w/

Noun

krv f (genitive singular krvi, declension pattern of kosť)

1. blood

Declension

Declension of krv

	singulare tantum
nominative	krv
genitive	krvi
dative	krvi
accusative	krv
locative	krvi
instrumental	krvou

Derived terms

• krvný (adj)
• krvne (adverb)
• krvička f

References

• “krv”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024