Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xrěnъ

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.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Unclear. Compare Ancient Greek κεράϊν (keráïn, “wild radish”) or Chuvash хӗрен (hĕren) (if not from East Slavic).

For the name compare:

• Radish: German Meerrettich (literally “foreign radish”), English horseradish.
• Root: French raifort (literally “strong root”), Portuguese raiz-forte (literally “strong root”).

*xrěnъ m

1. horseradish

• *redьky (“radish”)

• *xrěnovъ (adj.)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: хрѣнъ (xrěnŭ), хрѣнь (xrěnĭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: хрѣнъ (xrěn)
      • Belarusian: хрэн (xren)
      • Ukrainian: хрін (xrin)
    • Russian: хрен (xren), хрень (xrenʹ)
      • → Kyrgyz: хрен (hren)
      • → Erzya: крён (kŕon)^[1]
      • → Uzbek: xren
  • → Chuvash: хӗрен (hĕren) (possibly)
    • → Western Mari: ӹрӓн (ÿrän) (possibly)
    • → Bashkir: керән (kerən) (possibly)
    • → Tatar: керән (kerän) (possibly)
  • → Lithuanian: kriẽnas, kriená
  • → Samogitian: krėins
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Church Slavonic: хрѣнъ (xrěnŭ) (Serbian)
  • Bulgarian: хрян (hrjan), рен (ren)
  • Macedonian: рен (ren)
  • Serbo-Croatian: хре̏н, ре̏н
  • Slovene: hrȅn (tonal orthography)
  • → Romanian: hrean
  • → Greek: χρένο (chréno), χράνος (chrános)^[2]
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: chřěn, křěn
    • Czech: křen
  • Kashubian: chrzón, krzón
  • Polabian: xŕon
  • Old Polish: chrzan
    • Polish: chrzan
  • Old Slovak: chren, chrien, kren
    • Pannonian Rusyn: хрин (xrin)
    • Slovak: chren
  • Slovincian: krzón
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: chrěn, krěn
    • Lower Sorbian: kśěn, chrěn
  • → Vilamovian: krejn
  • → Middle High German: krên, krêne, chrên
    • Bavarian: Kren
    • East Central German: Krên
    • German: Kren
      • → French: cran, cranson
      • → Italian: cren
  • → Venetan: cren

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Yiddish: כריין (khreyn), (Western Yiddish) קריין (kreyn), קרען (kren)
    • → Dutch: chrein
    • → English: chrain
  • → Esperanto: kreno

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “хрен”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “хрен”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 356
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xrěnъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 91
• http://www.ruslang.ru/doc/etymology/1976/09-l%27vov.pdf
• http://vja.ruslang.ru/archive/1974-4.pdf#page=109