крамниця

Ukrainian

Etymology

From крам (kram, “goods, an object used for trading”) +‎ -ниця (-nycja), from Middle High German krām or Middle High German krāme (maybe partially through Polish kram), from Old High German kram, most likely from Proto-West Germanic *krimman (“to cram, to stuff”) or Proto-West Germanic *krāma- (a roofing used by merchants to cover their wagons).

Some suggest that the Old High German kram might have been a borrowing from Slavic, such as Old Church Slavonic грамъ (gramŭ, “pub, inn”), or Old Church Slavonic чрѣмъ (črěmŭ, “tent”). That word (kram) might not be a borrowing, but instead a cognate from Proto-Indo-European *gremH-, also cognate with Lithuanian grùmti (“to push, shove”).

See German Kram, Dutch kram, Danish kram, and English cram as well as their etymologies and references.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [krɐmˈnɪt͡sʲɐ]

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Noun

крамни́ця • (kramnýcja) f inan (genitive крамни́ці, nominative plural крамни́ці, genitive plural крамни́ць)

1. shop, store (establishment that sells goods)

   Synonym: магази́н (mahazýn)

Declension

Declension of крамни́ця (inan soft fem-form accent-a)

	singular	plural
nominative	крамни́ця kramnýcja	крамни́ці kramnýci
genitive	крамни́ці kramnýci	крамни́ць kramnýcʹ
dative	крамни́ці kramnýci	крамни́цям kramnýcjam
accusative	крамни́цю kramnýcju	крамни́ці kramnýci
instrumental	крамни́цею kramnýceju	крамни́цями kramnýcjamy
locative	крамни́ці kramnýci	крамни́цях kramnýcjax
vocative	крамни́це kramnýce	крамни́ці kramnýci

References

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “крамниця”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• “крамниця”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)
• Етимологічний словник української (1982-) [Etymological dictionary of the Ukrainian language] (in Ukrainian)