Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/krida
Proto-Slavic
editEtymology
editUnknown, possibly akin to Latin crībrum (“sieve, riddle”), Proto-Germanic *hrīdrǭ (“riddle”), Proto-Celtic *kreitro- (“sieve”) (whence Old Irish críathar, Old Welsh cruitr), from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to sift, to separate”) + *-da.
Noun
edit*krida f[1]
Inflection
editDeclension of *krida (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | *krida | *krìdě | *krìdy |
genitive | *krìdy | *krìdu | *krìdъ |
dative | *krìdě | *krìdama | *krìdamъ |
accusative | *krìdǫ | *krìdě | *krìdy |
instrumental | *krìdojǫ, *krìdǭ** | *krìdama | *krìdamī |
locative | *krìdě | *krìdu | *krìdasъ, *krìdaxъ* |
vocative | *krìdo | *krìdě | *krìdy |
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
Related terms
editDescendants
editFurther reading
edit- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1985), “*krida”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 12 (*koulъkъ – *kroma/*kromъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 151
- Sławski, Franciszek (1974) “O słowiańskich formacjach na -do, -da, -dь”, in Studia indoeuropejskie, page 213