creta

Значение (Английский)

Noun

1. (declension-1) chalk
2. (declension-1) clay, clayey soil

Verb

1. (feminine, form-of, nominative, participle, singular, vocative) inflection of crētus:
2. (accusative, form-of, neuter, nominative, participle, plural, vocative) inflection of crētus:

Verb

ablative feminine singular of crētus

Переводы

chalk

Kreide

craie

guix

gesso

creta

tiza

yeso

krijt

fuller’s earth

greda

طبشورة

tebeşir

creta

Этимология (Английский)

Unknown, perhaps:
* From Crēta, thus “Cretan earth”.
* From (terra) crēta (“sifted (earth)”), substantivized from the feminine gender of crētus. De Vaan considers this phonetically sound but semantically weak (clay is not a sifted type of dirt).
* From an archaic Proto-Indo-European noun *tkʷreh₁-it- (compare Old Irish crē, Welsh pridd, Tocharian A tukri and Tocharian B kwriye, all meaning “clay”) plus the thematic feminine ending *-eh₂, but the root would be otherwise unknown.
* An early borrowing from Celtic, or from the same substrate source as the Celtic words; more at Proto-Celtic *kʷrīyess. This theory is preferred by De Vaan.