(“laughing”). *<span class="searchmatch">krȋkъ</span> m cry, scream * -ъmь in North <span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span>, -omь in South <span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span>. *krěkъ *kričati *krěčati East <span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span>: Old East <span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span>: крикъ (krikŭ)...
From *<span class="searchmatch">krȋkъ</span> + *-ěti, from <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Balto-<span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span> *kreik-. Cognate with Lithuanian krỹkti (“to cry (of birds), to quack”), krỹkšti (“to shout”), Ancient Greek...
Nominal suffix. From <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Balto-<span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span> *-kas, from <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Indo-European *-kos. *-kъ m Deverbal, forms token nouns (usually with o-grade) *porkъ (“sling”)...
word-families are of similar onomatopoeic origin, comparable to <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span> *<span class="searchmatch">krikъ</span> and the like. On the other hand it should be noted that the Italo-Western...