chrona

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Old Polish

Etymology

Perhaps continuing Proto-Slavic *xornà. By surface analysis, chronić +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /xrɔna/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /xrɔna/

Noun

chrona f

  1. place of refuge, shelter, hiding place
    Synonyms: pochrona, schrona, skrow
    • 1930 [c. 1455], “Gen”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka), 24, 25:
      Plew a szana gest dosycz v nas, a chroni dosycz ku przebitku (et locus spatiosus ad manendum)
      [Plew a siana jest dosyć u nas a chrony dosyć ku przebytku (et locus spatiosus ad manendum)]

Descendants

  • >? Polish: charna (dialectal)

Further reading

  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “chrona”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN