Lithuanian edit

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Krepšys (1)

Etymology edit

Fraenkel notes the similarity to Proto-Germanic *hrepaz (Old Norse hrip (box or basket), Old High German ref, German Reff (a wooden frame used to carry something)), which may be cognate.

Dialectal kar̃bas, Proto-Slavic *korbъ < (?) Proto-West Germanic *korb < (?) Latin corbis may be from the same PIE root, but with an o-grade ablaut.

Noun edit

krepšỹs m (plural krepšiaĩ) stress pattern 4

  1. basket
    Synonyms: pintìnė, kãšikas, kraĩtė, kar̃bas
  2. bag
    Synonyms: maĩšas, terbà

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

From the same root and with overlapping meanings:

References edit

  • krepšys”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
  • Fraenkel, Ernst (1955, 1962–1965) “krepšỹs”, in Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume I, Heidelberg-Göttingen: Carl Winter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 294
  • Derksen, Rick (2015) “karbas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 226
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “короб”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN:Germanic ([...] hrip) and Baltic ([...] krẽpšas) both attest a *kreb- 'basket' which has cognate sets in other languages in its o-grade form, e.g. Lat cobis, Lith kar̃bas, Rus kórob.