конотопъ

Old East Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *konotòpъ (swamp in which the horse drowned).[1] Equivalent to конь (konĭ, horse) + -о- (-o-) + топити (topiti, to drown) + ().

Pronunciation

  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /kɔnɔˈtoːpʊ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /kɔnɔˈtoːpʊ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /kɔnɔˈtɔːp/, /kɔnɔˈtoːp/
  • Hyphenation: ко‧но‧то́‧пъ

Noun

конотопъ (konotopŭ) m

  1. swampy, boggy, impassable area

Declension

Descendants

  • Belarusian: канато́п (kanatóp, swamp, bog, marsh) (dialectal)
  • Russian: коното́п (konotóp, swampy, boggy, impassable area; hinterland, backwoods, province)[2][3]

Further reading

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “конотопа”, 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), volumes 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1270

References

  1. Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*konotopъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 10 (*klepačь – *konь), Moscow: Nauka, page 193
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    Pospelov, Yevgeny (1998) “Конотоп”, in Ageeva, Ruf, editor, Географические названия мира. Топологический словарь [Geographic Names of the World. Toponymic Dictionary] (in Russian), Moscow: ACT, Астрель, →ISBN
  3. Елистратов, В. С. (2002) “коното́п”, in Словарь русского арго (материалы 1980–1990 гг.) [Dictionary of the Russian Argo] (in Russian), digital edition, Грамота.ру

Russian

Noun

коното́пъ • (konotóp) m inan (genitive коното́па, nominative plural коното́пы, genitive plural коното́повъ)

  1. Pre-1918 spelling of коното́п (konotóp).

Declension

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