connil
French
Alternative forms
- connin
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ.ni/, /kɔ.nil/
Noun
connil m (plural connils)
- (dated, literary) rabbit
- Synonym: lapin
Further reading
- “connil”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Alternative forms
- conil, connin
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *cuniclus, from Latin cuniculus, from Ancient Greek κύνικλος (kúniklos), probably of Iberian origin.
Noun
connil m (oblique plural conniz or connilz, nominative singular conniz or connilz, nominative plural connil)
- rabbit (mammal)
- (figuratively, derogatory) idiot; imbecile (generic insult)
Descendants
- Middle French: connil
- French: connil (dated, literary)
- → Alemannic German: Chüngel
- → Cornish: konyn
- → Irish: coinín
- → Manx: conning
- → Middle Dutch: conin, conijn
- Dutch: konijn
- Afrikaans: konyn
- → Indonesian: kelinci
- → Cia-Cia: kelinci, 껠린찌
- → Papiamentu: konènchi, konijntsje (from the diminutive)
- → Sranan Tongo: konkoni, konikoni
- → Arawak: koneso
- → Aukan: konkoni
- → Caribbean Hindustani: konkoni, kunkuni
- → Caribbean Javanese: koni-koni
- Limburgish: knien
- West Flemish: konyn
- Dutch: konijn
- → Middle English: coni, konyng, conynge, cunning, conig, cony, conyne, konyn
- English: cony, coney, cunny, connie
- Scots: kinnen, kyunnen, connie
- → Middle Welsh: cwning
- Welsh: cwning, cwnig
- → Middle Low German: kanīn
- German Low German: Kanien
- → Danish: kanin
- → Faroese: kanin
- → German: Kanin
- → Icelandic: kanína
- → Norwegian: kanin
- → Swedish: kanin
- → Finnish: kaniini, kani
- → Rhine Franconian: Kning
- → West Frisian: knyn
- ⇒ Middle Low German: kanīnken, kanīneken
- German Low German: Kninken, Kanickelgen, Karnickelgen
- → German: Karnickel
- → German: Kaninchen
- → Romansch: canign
- → Luxembourgish: Kanéngchen
- German Low German: Kninken, Kanickelgen, Karnickelgen
- → Scottish Gaelic: coineanach, coinean
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (connil)