Unknown. The etymology determination is complicated by the fact that the word is both in sense and form similar with Ancient Greek καλύπτω (kalúptō, “to cover”), thus indicating possible (bi-directional) analogical influence.
Although the word is traditionally compared with the semantically close Proto-Balto-Slavic *kráuˀtei (“to cover, hide”) (whence Russian крыть (krytʹ, “id”), Old Church Slavonic крꙑти (kryti, “id”), Lithuanian krovinỹs (“cargo”)), de Vaan notes that Balto-Slavic evidence demands a laryngeal while Greek excludes it, making a formal relation difficult.[1]
Beekes thus suggests possible Pre-Greek origin due to lack of solid Indo-European etymology, but acknowledges that the variation in labial (which he usually considered to be an argument for substrate origin) may be due to aforementioned analogy.[2]
κρύπτω • (krúptō)
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
active | indicative | ἔκρῠπτον | ἔκρῠπτες | ἔκρῠπτε(ν) | ἐκρῠ́πτετον | ἐκρῠπτέτην | ἐκρῠ́πτομεν | ἐκρῠ́πτετε | ἔκρῠπτον | ||||
middle/ passive |
indicative | ἐκρῠπτόμην | ἐκρῠ́πτου | ἐκρῠ́πτετο | ἐκρῠ́πτεσθον | ἐκρῠπτέσθην | ἐκρῠπτόμεθᾰ | ἐκρῠ́πτεσθε | ἐκρῠ́πτοντο | ||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
active | indicative | ἐκεκρύφειν, ἐκεκρύφη |
ἐκεκρύφεις, ἐκεκρύφης |
ἐκεκρύφει(ν) | ἐκεκρύφετον | ἐκεκρυφέτην | ἐκεκρύφεμεν | ἐκεκρύφετε | ἐκεκρύφεσᾰν | ||||
middle/ passive |
indicative | κεκρῠ́μην | κέκρῠσο | κέκρῠτο | κέκρῠσθον | κεκρῠ́σθην | κεκρῠ́μεθᾰ | κέκρῠσθε | κέκρῠντο | ||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
middle/ passive |
indicative | κεκρύφομαι | κεκρύφῃ, κεκρύφει |
κεκρύφεται | κεκρύφεσθον | κεκρύφεσθον | κεκρυφόμεθᾰ | κεκρύφεσθε | κεκρύφονται | ||||
optative | κεκρυφοίμην | κεκρύφοιο | κεκρύφοιτο | κεκρύφοισθον | κεκρυφοίσθην | κεκρυφοίμεθᾰ | κεκρύφοισθε | κεκρύφοιντο | |||||
middle/passive | |||||||||||||
infinitive | κεκρύφεσθαι | ||||||||||||
participle | m | κεκρυφόμενος | |||||||||||
f | κεκρυφομένη | ||||||||||||
n | κεκρυφόμενον | ||||||||||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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κρύπτω • (krýpto) (past έκρυψα) passive -κρύπτομαι (found in compounds)
Compounds:
Other κρυπτ- words
And see κρύβω (krývo) for stems κρυφ-, κρυψ-