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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/konopь
Proto-Slavic
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*konopь
Alternative forms
- *konopľь m, *konopľa f (secondary)
Etymology
A Kulturwort of unknown ultimate origin. See Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis) for more concrete relations.
Noun
*konopь m
- hemp (Cannabis sativa)
Inflection
Declension of *konopь (i-stem)
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | *konopь | *konopi | *konopьje, *konopľe* |
Accusative | *konopь | *konopi | *konopi |
Genitive | *konopi | *konopьju, *konopľu* | *konopьjь, *konopi* |
Locative | *konopi | *konopьju, *konopľu* | *konopьxъ |
Dative | *konopi | *konopьma | *konopьmъ |
Instrumental | *konopьmь | *konopьma | *konopьmi |
Vocative | *konopi | *konopi | *konopьje, *konopľe* |
* 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: коноплꙗ (konoplja), конопли pl (konopli)
- Belarusian: кано́плі m pl (kanópli)
- Russian: конопля́ f (konopljá), dialectal also коно́пля (konóplja) and as a pluraletantum
- Ukrainian: коно́плі f pl (konópli)
- Old East Slavic: коноплꙗ (konoplja), конопли pl (konopli)
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: конопь (konopĭ)
- Bulgarian: коно́п m (konóp)
- Macedonian: коноп m (konop)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ко̀ноп m, ко̀нопља f
- Latin: kònop m, kònoplja f
- Slovene: konôplja m
- → Albanian: konopi
- Old Church Slavonic: конопь (konopĭ)
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: konopě f
- Czech: konopí n, dialectally konopě f
- Polish: konop f (archaic), konopia f, konopie pl
- Kashubian: kònop f kònopl f kònopla f kònopia f
- Slovak: konope f
- Slovincian: kʷónopla f, kʷónople pl, kʷonoṕe pl
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: kónopje, kónop, kónoṕ, kónopej; kónoṕe, konopje
- Upper Sorbian: konop f, konoṕ, konopej
- Old Czech: konopě f
Further reading
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “konopja konopjě”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b (SA 138)”
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*konopja/*konopjě”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 10 (*klepačь – *konь), Moscow: Nauka, page 188