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 edit

Alternative reconstructions edit

*krьnica

Etymology edit

Unknown, maybe identical to the container name *krina.

Noun edit

*krinica f

slough, gully

Descendants edit

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.