комонь
Old East Slavic
editEtymology
editThere 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
edit- Hyphenation: ко‧мо‧нь
Noun
editкомонь (komonĭ) m
- Synonym of конь (konĭ)
Declension
editDeclension of комонь (soft o-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
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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
edit- Middle Russian: комонь (komonʹ)
References
edit- 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