eighth avatar of Vishnu, 1793, from Sanskrit krshnah, literally "the Black One," from PIE *kers-no-, suffixed form of root *kers- "dark, dirty" (source also of Old Church Slavonic crunu, Russian coron, Serbo-Croatian crn, Czech cerny, Old Prussian kirsnan "black," Lithuanian keršas "black and white, variegated").
*kreus-
kreutzer
kriegspiel
krill
kris
Krishna
Kriss Kringle
Kristallnacht
krone
kroner
Krugerrand