Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/konъ

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Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kanas, from Proto-Indo-European *kon-o-, from *ken-. Equivalent to *čęti (“to begin”) +‎ *-ъ.

For the meaning compare dial. Serbo-Croatian крај (“end”), dial. Russian край (kraj, “edge, end”) (< *krajь (“edge, end”))[1].

Noun

*konъ m[2]

  1. beginning
    Synonyms: *konьcь, *pokonъ, *počętъkъ, *načętъkъ, *načętьje, *načędlo
  2. end
    Synonyms: *konьcь, *krajь

Inflection

Declension of *konъ (hard o-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *konъ *kona *koni
genitive *kona *konu *konъ
dative *konu *konoma *konomъ
accusative *konъ *kona *kony
instrumental *konъmь, *konomь* *konoma *kony
locative *koně *konu *koněxъ
vocative *kone *kona *koni
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: конъ (konŭ)
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: кон (kon)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: кон
      Latin script: kon
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: kon
    • Sorbian:

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “кон”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*konъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 10 (*klepačь – *konь), Moscow: Nauka, page 195
  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “конъ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1270

References

  1. ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1985), “*krajь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 12 (*koulъkъ – *kroma/*kromъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 88
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*konъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 232: “m. o”
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