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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/koňь

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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-Slavic

Etymology

There are a few theories about its origin:

  • (Vasmer): from *komnь, from early *kobnь. Compare *kobyla.
  • (Author?): from Proto-Indo-European *ḱem- (“hornless”). Cognate with English hind, Sanskrit षम (śáma-, “hornless”), Ancient Greek κεμάς (kemás, “young deer”), Old Prussian camstian (“sheep”) and camnet (“horse”).

All the major domesticated animals were horned cattle, hence the semantic contrast between, e.g., the hornless sheep of Old Prussian and the "hornless" horses of Old Prussian and Common Slavic eventually arose.

Noun

*kòňь m [1][2]

  1. horse
    Synonym: *komoňь

Declension
Declension of *kòňь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm b)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *kòňь *koňà *koňì
Accusative *kòňь *koňà *koňę̇̀
Genitive *koňà *koňù *kòňь
Locative *koňì *koňù *kòňixъ
Dative *koňù *koňèma *kòňemъ
Instrumental *koňь̀mь, *koňèmь* *koňèma *kòňi
Vocative *koňu *koňà *koňì
* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Derived terms
  • *konьnъ (“equine”)
  • *konьskъ (“horsy”)
  • *konьnikъ (“knight”)
  • *konьnica (“cavalry”)
  • *koňušьna (“stable”)
  • *koňarь (“stableman, syce”)
  • *koňevodъ (“horse herder”)
  • *koňekradъ (“horse thief”)

Descendants

Further reading

References
  1. 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’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “konjь konja”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b (SA 69, 147, 177; PR 134; MP 19)”
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