Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *hrinkwanąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_hrinkwaną
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крѫгъcircle*(s)kreng-
verbStrong class 3to bendto curlto recoil, to give wayUnclear. According to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreng-, nasalized variant of *(s)ker- (‘to bend’).Thought to be related to Old High German hranca and Middle Dutch ranke (‘tendril, twig’). Furthermore possibly related to Old Church Slavonic крѫгъ (krǫgŭ, ‘circle’).