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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kričati

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

Etymology

From *krȋkъ +‎ *-ěti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kreik-. Cognate with Lithuanian krỹkti (“to cry (of birds), to quack”), krỹkšti (“to shout”), Ancient Greek κρίκε (kríke, “(he) squeals, (it) pops”).

Verb

*kričati impf[1][2]

  1. to scream

Inflection

Descendants

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “крича́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1985), “*kričati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 12 (*koulъkъ – *kroma/*kromъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 149

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*kričati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 247: “v. (c) ‘cry, scream’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001) “kričati: kričjǫ kričitь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c skrige (PR 139)”
  3. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “kërcas”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 180
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