кунь

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kun"

Crimean Tatar

Noun

кунь (kün)

  1. Cyrillic spelling of kün

Ket

Wikispecies

Etymology

From earlier kúune, kuunʲa, kuhn, kû'on,[1][2] from Proto-Ketic *kuːˁnʌ ~ *kuˀʌnʌ, ultimately inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *kun (wolverine). Cognate with Yug куʼн (kuˁn) and Pumpokol kun.

Most likely related to Proto-Common Turkic *qunu (wolverine); Khakas хуну (xunu) and Bashkir ҡоно (qono), and possibly also Udmurt коньы (końy, squirrel).[3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (singular) [kun̥ʲ˥˩][4][5][6], (plural) [ˈkun˩˧.n̩˧˩][7]

Noun

кунь (kùnʲm or f (plural куннь (kūnnʲ))

  1. (zoology) wolverine
    Ат кунда иӈолть дэпӄолдонь. (Sulomay dialect)
    Āt kunda iŋɔltʲ dɛpqɔldɔnʲ.
    I flayed a wolverine.
    Кунь сьэль даӷай. (Sulomay dialect)
    Kùnʲ sʲɛ̀lʲ daʁaj.
    The wolverine killed a deer.
    Куннь кудып кайнам. (Surgutiha dialect)
    Kūnn kudɨp tkajnam.
    He took a bundle of wolverine hides.

References

  1. ^ Werner, Heinrich (2005) “kúune (M, W); kuun'a (Kl)”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 49
  2. ^ Georg, Stefan (2007) A Descriptive Grammar of Ket (Yenisei-Ostyak) Part 1: Introduction, Phonology, Morphology, Cromwell: Global Oriental, →ISBN, page 34
  3. ^ Khabtagaeva, Bayarma (2019) Language Contact in Siberia: Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic Loanwords in Yeniseian (The languages of Asia series; 19)‎[1], Brill, →ISBN, page 59
  4. ^ Georg, Stefan (2007) A Descriptive Grammar of Ket (Yenisei-Ostyak) Part 1: Introduction, Phonology, Morphology, Cromwell: Global Oriental, →ISBN, page 50
  5. ^ Georg, Stefan (2007) A Descriptive Grammar of Ket (Yenisei-Ostyak) Part 1: Introduction, Phonology, Morphology, Cromwell: Global Oriental, →ISBN, page 67
  6. ^ Georg, Stefan (2007) A Descriptive Grammar of Ket (Yenisei-Ostyak) Part 1: Introduction, Phonology, Morphology, Cromwell: Global Oriental, →ISBN, page 79
  7. ^ Georg, Stefan (2007) A Descriptive Grammar of Ket (Yenisei-Ostyak) Part 1: Introduction, Phonology, Morphology, Cromwell: Global Oriental, →ISBN, page 79
  • Fortescue, Michael, Vajda, Edward (2022) Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 310
  • Fortescue, Michael, Vajda, Edward (2022) “80.) ~*kun()s”, in Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America (Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; 17)‎[3], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 364
  • Kotorova, Elizaveta, Nefedov, Andrey (2015) “kùn (m/f)”, in Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 246
  • Vajda, Edward, Werner, Heinrich (2022) “*kuˀʌnʌ”, in Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 428
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002) “кунь (м) [мн. куннь]”, in Словарь кетско-русский и русско-кетский: Учебное пособие для учащихся начальной школы[4], 2 edition, Saint-Petersburg: Drofa, →ISBN, page 48
  • Werner, Heinrich (2002) “⁴kun'”, in Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 451
  • Werner, Heinrich (2005) “Vielfraß”, in Die Jenissej-Sprachen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 274

Old Ruthenian

Alternative forms

  • кунъ (kun)

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

кунь • (kunʹm inan (genitive конꙗ, nominative plural кони, genitive plural коней)

  1. Middle Ukrainian form of конь (konʹ)

Derived terms

  • Кунъ (Kun) (Old Ukrainian surname)

Further reading

  • Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1977), “конь, kon”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ–15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volume 1 (А – М), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 494
  • Chikalo, M. I., editor (2010), “конь, кунъ”, in Словник української мови XVI – I пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 15 (конь – легковѣрны), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 3
  • Chikalo, M. I., editor (2010), “кунь; конь”, in Словник української мови XVI – I пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 15 (конь – легковѣрны), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 182

Ukrainian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Ruthenian кунь (kunʹ), from конь (konʹ). Cognate with Carpathian Rusyn кӱнь (künʹ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kunʲ]

Noun

кунь • (kunʹm (genitive коня́, nominative plural ко́ні, genitive plural ко́ней)

  1. (dialectal) horse (animal)
    Synonym: кінь (kinʹ)