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.

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

• *gomoniti, *gomonъ, *gomota

Related terms

• *koňь (possibly)

Derived terms

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: комонь (komonĭ)
    • Russian: ко́мо́нь (kómónʹ)
    • Ukrainian: ко́мо́нь (kómónʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: комонь (komonĭ)
• 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, volume 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