Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/konьnica

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

Etymology

From *konьnъ +‎ *-ica.

Noun

*kònьnica f

1. cavalry

Declension

Declension of *kònьnica (soft a-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*kònьnica	*kònьnici	*kònьnicę̇
genitive	*kònьnicę̇	*kònьnicu	*kònьnicь
dative	*kònьnicī	*kònьnicama	*kònьnicāmъ
accusative	*kònьnicǫ	*kònьnici	*kònьnicę̇
instrumental	*kònьnicējǫ, *kònьnicǭ*	*kònьnicama	*kònьnicāmī
locative	*kònьnicī	*kònьnicu	*kònьnicāsъ
vocative	*kònьnice	*kònьnici	*kònьnicę̇

^* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: конница (konnica)
    • Belarusian: ко́нница (kónnica)
    • Russian: ко́нница (kónnica)
    • Ukrainian: кінни́ця (kinnýcja)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: ко́нница (kónnica)
  • Macedonian: коњица (konjica)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ко̏њица

    Latin script: kȍnjica

  • Slovene: konjíca
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: konnicě
  • Polabian: ťönnaićă
  • Old Polish: konnica
    • Polish: konnica
  • Slovak: konnica (archaic)

References

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1984), “*konьnica”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 11 (*konьcь – *kotьna(ja)), Moscow: Nauka, page 8