Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/kreiwás

This Proto-Balto-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-Balto-Slavic

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Etymology

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Probably from a Proto-Indo-European *(s)krey-, and related to Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (to turn, spin) (whence Latin curvus (curved)), though the phonetic details are unclear.[1]

Adjective

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*kreiwás

  1. crooked, curved, wrong

Descendants

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  • Old Prussian: grēiwakaulin (rib (acc. sg.))
  • Lithuanian: kreĩvas
  • Latvian: krievs
  • Proto-Slavic: *krȋvъ (see there for further descendants)

References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 256-7