комонь

Old East Slavic

комонь

Etymology

There are two theories about its origin:

• (Vasmer, Skok, Długosz-Kurczabowa, Holub/Kopečný): from *komňь, from early *kobňь, akin to *kobyla (“mare”). Compare Latin caballus (“working horse”), Proto-Celtic *kapallos (> Old Irish capall).
• (Brückner, Długosz-Kurczabowa): from *komňь, related to komosić (“make wild, enrage”) cognate with Lithuanian kumelė (“mare”), Old Prussian kamnet (“horse”). (Note, however, that komosić does not seem to exist in East or South Slavic and therefore probably is not very old and that Skok explains the similar verbs komešati (“stir, mix”) and kovitlati (“gyrate, form an eddy”) with a prefix *ko-.)

Pronunciation

• (ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔmɔnʲɪ/
• (ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔmɔnʲɪ/
• (ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔmɔːnʲ/
• Hyphenation: ко‧мо‧нь

Noun

комонь (komonĭ) m

1. Synonym of конь (konĭ)

Declension

Declension of комонь (soft o-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	комонь komonĭ	комонꙗ komonja	комони komoni
Genitive	комонꙗ komonja	комоню komonju	комонь komonĭ
Dative	комоню komonju	комонема komonema	комонемъ komonemŭ
Accusative	комонь komonĭ	комонꙗ komonja	комонѣ komoně
Instrumental	комоньмь komonĭmĭ	комонема komonema	комони komoni
Locative	комони komoni	комоню komonju	комонихъ komonixŭ
Vocative	комоню komonju	комонꙗ komonja	комони komoni

Descendants

• Middle Russian: комонь (komonʹ)

References

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “комонь”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎^[1] (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1266