Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/kunikl

This Proto-Brythonic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Brythonic

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cunīclus.

Noun

*kunikl m

1. rabbit

Descendants

• Middle Breton: conicl, conniffl
  • Breton: konikl, konifl

Further reading

• Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “cunīculus”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎^[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 383
• Cornillet, Gérard (2017) “konikl”, in Geriadur galleg brezhoneg, dictionnaire français breton, page 949