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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From *konъ (“end, edge”) + *-ьcь.
Noun
*konьcь m
- end
- Synonyms: *krajь, *grotъ
- thread, string
- Synonyms: *nitь, *niťьka
Inflection
* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: коньць (konĭcĭ)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “конец”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1984), “*konьcь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 11 (*konьcь – *kotьna(ja)), Moscow: Nauka, page 05
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1979), “конец¹”, in Български етимологичен речник (in Bulgarian), volume 2 (и – крепя̀), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 588
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*konь̀cь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 232: “m. jo ‘end’”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “konьcь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (PR 132)”
- ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “kónec”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*konьcь̏”