Lower Sorbian edit

Etymology edit

From Upper Saxon German Karnickel, from German Low German Kanickel, from a variant of Middle Low German kanīn, from Middle French connin.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

karnikel m animal (genitive singular karnikela or karnikla)

  1. rabbit

Declension edit

Alternative declension:

Further reading edit

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “karnikel”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “karnikel”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
  • Lower Sorbian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.