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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/komoňь

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Alternative reconstructions
  • *komonь

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

From *kammanios, from a Celtic idiom, per Václav Blažek.[1]

Noun

*komoňь m

  1. horse
    Synonym: *koňь

Inflection
Declension of *komoňь (soft o-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *komoňь *komoňa *komoňi
genitive *komoňa *komoňu *komoňь
dative *komoňu *komoňema *komoňemъ
accusative *komoňь *komoňa *komoňę̇
instrumental *komoňьmь, *komoňemь* *komoňema *komoňi
locative *komoňi *komoňu *komoňixъ
vocative *komoňu *komoňa *komoňi
* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

See also

Derived terms
  • *komoniti
  • *komonica / *komonika
  • *komonьnъ
  • *komonьnikъ (“horseman”)

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: комонь (komonĭ)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: komoň
      • Czech: komoň (archaic, literary)
    • Polish: *komon- (see derived terms)
      • Polish: komonik, komonnik

Further reading
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “комонь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “комонь”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 426
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*komonь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 10 (*klepačь – *konь), Moscow: Nauka, page 177

References
  1. Blažek, Václav (2009) “Slavic *komonjь and its probably Celtic source”, in Fourth International Colloquium of Societas Celto-Slavica‎, page 9
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