connil

Old French

From Vulgar Latin *cuniclus, from Latin cuniculus, from Ancient Greek κύνικλος (kúniklos), probably of Iberian origin.

connil m (oblique plural conniz or connilz, nominative singular conniz or connilz, nominative plural connil)

→ Alemannic German: Chüngel
→ Cornish: konyn
→ Irish: coinín
→ Manx: conning
→ Middle Dutch: conin, conijn
- Dutch: konijn
  - Afrikaans: konyn
  - → Papiamentu: konènchi (from the diminutive)
- Limburgish: knien
- West Flemish: konyn
→ Middle English: coni, konyng, conynge, cunning, conig
- English: cony, coney, cunny, connie
- Scots: kinnen, kyunnen, connie
- → Middle Welsh: [Term?]
  - Welsh: cwning, cwnig
→ Middle Low German: kanīn
- German Low German: Kanien
- → Danish: kanin
- → Faroese: kanin
- → German: Kanin
- → Icelandic: kanína
- → Norwegian: kanin
- → Swedish: kanin
  - → Finnish: kaniini, kani
- → Rhine Franconian: Kning
- → West Frisian: knyn
- ⇒ Middle Low German: kanīnken, kanīneken
  - German Low German: Kninken, Kanickelgen, Karnickelgen
    - → German: Karnickel
  - → German: Kaninchen
    - → Romansch: canign
  - → Luxembourgish: Kanéngchen
→ Scottish Gaelic: coineanach, coinean

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (connil)

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