karnikel

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Upper Saxon German Karnickel, from German Low German Kanickel, from a variant of Middle Low German kanīn, from Middle French connin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /karˈnʲikʲɛl/

Noun

karnikel m animal (genitive singular karnikela or karnikla)

1. rabbit

Declension

Declension of karnikel

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	karnikel	karnikela	karnikele
Genitive	karnikela	karnikelowu	karnikelow
Dative	karnikeloju	karnikeloma	karnikelam
Accusative	karnikela	karnikelowu	karnikele, karnikelow
Instrumental	karnikelom	karnikeloma	karnikelami
Locative	karnikelu	karnikeloma	karnikelach

Alternative declension:

Declension of karnikel

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	karnikel	karnikla	karnikle
Genitive	karnikla	karniklowu	karniklow
Dative	karnikloju	karnikloma	karniklam
Accusative	karnikla	karniklowu	karnikle, karniklow
Instrumental	karniklom	karnikloma	karniklami
Locative	karniklu	karnikloma	karniklach

Further reading

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “karnikel”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “karnikel”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• Lower Sorbian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.