Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/krajina

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

*krajь (“end, edge”) +‎ *-ina

Noun

*krajina f

frontier area, boundary area
region, area, county

Declension

Declension of *krajina (hard a-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*krajina	*krajině	*krajiny
Accusative	*krajinǫ	*krajině	*krajiny
Genitive	*krajiny	*krajinu	*krajinъ
Locative	*krajině	*krajinu	krajinasъ, krajinaxъ^*
Dative	*krajině	*krajinama	*krajinamъ
Instrumental	krajinojǫ, krajinǫ^**	*krajinama	*krajinami
Vocative	*krajino	*krajině	*krajiny

^* -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).

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: краі́на (kraína)
- Russian: краи́на (kraína)
- Rusyn: крайна (krajna), країна (krajina)
- Ukrainian: краї́на (krajína)
South Slavic:
- Macedonian: краина (kraina)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: кра̏јина
  Latin: krȁjina
  - → Albanian: krahinë
- Slovene: krájina, krȃjina
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: krajina
  - Czech: krajina
- Polish: kraina
- Slovak: krajina
- Slovincian: krai̯ina, krajina
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: krajina
  - Upper Sorbian: krajina

References

Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1985), “*krajina”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 12 (*koulъkъ – *kroma/*kromъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 87