крамниця

From крам (kram, “goods, an object used for trading”) +‎ -ниця (-nycja), from Middle High German krām or Middle High German krāme (maybe partially through Polish kram), from Old High German kram, most likely from Proto-West Germanic *krimman (“to cram, to stuff”) or Proto-West Germanic *krāma- (a roofing used by merchants to cover their wagons).

Some suggest that the Old High German kram might have been a borrowing from Slavic, such as Old Church Slavonic грамъ (gramŭ, “pub, inn”), or Old Church Slavonic чрѣмъ (črěmŭ, “tent”). That word (kram) might not be a borrowing, but instead a cognate from Proto-Indo-European *gremH-, also cognate with Lithuanian grùmti (“to push, shove”).

See German Kram, Dutch kram, Danish kram, and English cram as well as their etymologies and references.

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крамни́ця • (kramnýcja) f inan (genitive крамни́ці, nominative plural крамни́ці, genitive plural крамни́ць)

1. shop, store (establishment that sells goods)

   Synonym: магази́н (mahazýn)

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “крамниця”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• “крамниця”, in Горох – Словозміна (in Ukrainian)
• Етимологічний словник української (1982-) (in Ukrainian)