क्री

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *kray-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kray-, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷreyh₂-. Cognate with Welsh prynu, Old Irish crenaid, Ancient Greek ἐπριάμην (epriámēn), Proto-Slavic *krьnǫti, Tocharian B käry- (“to buy”), karyor (“buying”).

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /kɽiː/
(Classical) IPA^(key): /kɽiː/

Root

क्री • (krī)

to buy

Descendants

क्रय (krayá, “buying, purchase”)
क्रयण (kráyaṇa, “buying”)
क्रयणीय (krayaṇīya, “to be bought”)
क्रयिन् (krayin, “buyer, purchaser”)
क्रय्य (krayya, “for sale, purchasable”)
क्रायक (krāyaka, “buyer, trader”)
क्रीणाति (krīṇā́ti, “he buys”)
क्रेतव्य (kretavya, “purchasable”)
क्रेतृ (kretṛ, “buyer, purchaser”)
क्रेय (kreya, “purchasable”)
यवक्री (yavakrī, “a buyer or purchaser of barley”)
सद्यःक्री (sadyaḥkrī, “bought on the same day”)

References

Monier Williams (1899), “क्री”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 321.
William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 25

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