Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/konъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kanas, from Proto-Indo-European *kon-o-, from *ken-. Equivalent to *čęti (“to begin”) + *-ъ.
For the meaning compare dial. Serbo-Croatian крај (“end”), dial. Russian край (kraj, “edge, end”) (< *krajь (“edge, end”))[1].
Noun
*konъ m[2]
Inflection
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *konъ | *kona | *koni |
| genitive | *kona | *konu | *konъ |
| dative | *konu | *konoma | *konomъ |
| accusative | *konъ | *kona | *kony |
| instrumental | *konъmь, *konomь* | *konoma | *kony |
| locative | *koně | *konu | *koněxъ |
| vocative | *kone | *kona | *koni |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Derived terms
- *konь (“border > beginning (: end)”)
- *pokonъ (“ultimatum”)
- *zakonъ (“law, order”)
Related terms
Descendants
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “кон”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*konъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 10 (*klepačь – *konь), Moscow: Nauka, page 195
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “конъ”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments][1] (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1270
References
- ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1985), “*krajь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 12 (*koulъkъ – *kroma/*kromъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 88
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*konъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 232: “m. o”