Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/kréiwas
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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 edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
*kréiwas
Descendants edit
- Old Prussian: grēiwakaulin (rib (acc. sg.))
- Lithuanian: kreĩvas
- Latvian: krievs
- Proto-Slavic: *krȋvъ (see there for further descendants)
References edit
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 256-7