Krieche

German Etymology From de gmh krieche, from de goh *kriehha (attested in goh kriehboum). Cognate with dum crieke (modern nl kriek), gml krêke (modern nds Kreke, Kreike). Further origin de 1, but predominantly believed to be from de gmw-pro *Krēkō Greek. The fruit in question may have been spread along the Danube,de Theodor Frings: Germania Romana, Halle/Saale, 1932, p. 69. but “Greek” might also have been used simply in the sense of “foreign, novel”. The challenge to this etymology lies in the fact that no reference to a “Greek” fruit is found in ML. - (la prunum graecum appears only in the 16th c. in Germany). An alternative theory therefore reconstructs West Germanic gmw-pro *kreuku crooked or misshapen tree/fruit, which would be akin to gmw-pro *krukkju crutch.kriek 2 Further cognates All borrowed from continental West Germanic languages: da kræge, no kræge, sv krikon, en crocket, fro creke, creque (fr crèque), prg krichaytos (with some suffix), lt kryklė, lv kriķis Pronunciation de [ˈkʁiːçə] de Krie che Noun f de regional or specialist bullace (Prunus domestica ssp. insititia subspecies) de obsolete dialectal one of a number of other fruits of the genus Prunus genus sloe (Prunus domestica species) sour cherry (Prunus cerasus species) Declension f References Further reading 384 de Prunus genus plants