Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/koňь
Proto-SlavicEdit
EtymologyEdit
There are two theories about its origin:
- (Vasmer, Skok, Długosz-Kurczabowa, Holub/Kopečný): from *komňь (cf. Old East Slavic комонь (komonʹ, “horse”)), from early *kobňь, akin to *kobyla (“mare”). Compare Latin caballus (“working horse”), Proto-Celtic *kapallos (> Old Irish capall).
- (Brückner, Długosz-Kurczabowa): from *komňь (cf. Old East Slavic комонь (komonʹ, “horse”)), 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-.)
NounEdit
DeclensionEdit
Declension of *kòňь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm b)
Related termsEdit
- *komoňь (possibly)
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further readingEdit
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “конь”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*konь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), volume 10 (*klepačь – konь), Moscow: Nauka, page 197
- Georgiev V. I., editor (1979), “кон¹”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 2, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 578
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008), “*kòņь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 231: “m. jo (b) ‘horse’”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001), “konjь konja”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b (SA 69, 147, 177; PR 134; MP 19)”