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Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Old Czech, borrowed from Middle High German kanne (“jug, pitcher, can”), whence also Slovak kanva, Polish konew, Ukrainian кíнва (kínva), Russian ко́новь (kónovʹ).
Pronunciation
Noun
konev f
- a watering can
Declension
Declension of konev (soft zero-ending feminine reducible)
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ко́новь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
Further reading
- konev in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- konev in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- konev in Internetová jazyková příručka