Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/krinica

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *krьnica

Etymology

Unknown, maybe identical to the container name *krina.

Noun

*krinica f

1. slough, gully

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: крыні́ца (kryníca, “spring, source”)
  • Russian: крини́ца (kriníca, “spring, well”), крыни́ца (kryníca) (dialectal)
  • Ukrainian: крини́ця (krynýcja, “spring, well”)
    • → Polish: krynica
    • → Yiddish: קרעניצע (krenitse)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: кр̀ница

    Latin script: kr̀nica

  • Slovene: krníca (“deep spot in river or lake, vortex, basin”)
• West Slavic:
  • Polabian: krėnéica (“spring, well”)
  • Old Sorbian: krinica
• Names:
  • Czech: Křinec, a town
  • Czech: Křinice, a village
  • Czech: Křeničná, a village
  • German: Krien, a village southwest of Anklam, 1253 Krina
  • German: Krienkowsee, a lake southwest of Boitzenburg
  • German: Obere Krienke, Untere Krienke, protrusions of the river Welse
  • German: Krönitz, Kreutz, a lake near Demmin formerly so called
  • German: Crinitz / Lower Sorbian: Krynica and formerly other forms, a village in Lower Lusatia
  • 🖝 See Polish Wikipedia on “Krynica” for many places of this name in Poland.

Further reading

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*krinica II; *krьnica”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 248: “f. jā”
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1985), “*krinica, *krьnica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 12 (*koulъkъ – *kroma/*kromъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 158
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “крини́ца”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress