krepšys

Fraenkel notes the similarity to Proto-Germanic *hrepaz (Old Norse hrip (“box or basket”), Old High German ref, German Reff (“a wooden frame used to carry something”)), which may be cognate.

Dialectal kar̃bas, Proto-Slavic *korbъ < (?) Proto-West Germanic *korb < (?) Latin corbis may be from the same PIE root, but with an o-grade ablaut.

krepšỹs m (plural krepšiai̇̃) stress pattern 4

1. basket

   Synonyms: pinti̇̀nė, kãšikas, krai̇̃tė, kar̃bas

2. bag

   Synonyms: mai̇̃šas, terbà

• krepši̇̀nis (“basketball”)

From the same root and with overlapping meanings:

• krẽpšas, krãpšas

• “krepšys”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
• Fraenkel, Ernst (1955, 1962–1965) “krepšỹs”, in Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume I, Heidelberg-Göttingen: Carl Winter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 294
• Derksen, Rick (2015) “karbas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 226
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “короб”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN: “Germanic ([...] hrip) and Baltic ([...] krẽpšas) both attest a *kreb- 'basket' which has cognate sets in other languages in its o-grade form, e.g. Lat cobis, Lith kar̃bas, Rus kórob.”