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krī

cl. 9. P. Ā. krīṇā́ti, krīṇīte (fut. p. kreṣyat, [Lāṭy.]; ind.p. krīvā́, [AV.]; [Mn.]), to buy, purchase (with instr. of the price, and abl. or gen. of the person from whom anything is bought, e.g. ká imám indraṃ daśábhir dhenúbhir máma krīṇāti, who will buy this Indra of me for ten cows? [RV. iv, 24, 10]; yam mātā-pitror antikāt [or sakāśāt] krīṇīyāt whom he may buy from his father and mother, [Mn. ix, 174]; krīṇīṣva tad daśabhiḥ suvarṇaih, buy that for ten suvarṇas) : Caus. P. krāpayati, [Pāṇ. vi, 1, 48];

[cf. Hib. creanaim, ‘I buy, purchase’; Gk. πρίαμαι πέρνημι Lith. prekis, perku (?); Lat. pretium; Eng. hire.]

See yava-krī, sadyaḥ-krī́