connil

French

Alternative forms

• connin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ni/, /kɔ.nil/

Noun

connil m (plural connils)

1. (dated, literary) rabbit

   Synonym: lapin

Further reading

• “connil”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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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 oblique singular, m (oblique plural conniz or connilz, nominative singular conniz or connilz, nominative plural connil)

1. rabbit (mammal)
2. (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
      • → Lokono: koneso
      • → Aukan: konkoni
      • → Caribbean Hindustani: konkoni, kunkuni
      • → Caribbean Javanese: koni-koni
  • Limburgish: knien
  • West Flemish: konyn
• → 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
• → Scottish Gaelic: coineanach

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (connil)