connil

French

Alternative forms

• connin

Etymology

Inherited from Old French connil, from Latin cunīculus.

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

Old French

Alternative forms

• conil, connin

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cunīculus.

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

• French: connil, connin (dated, literary)

• → Alemannic German: Chüngel
• → Cornish: konin
• → Irish: coinín
• → Manx: conning
• → Middle Dutch: conin, conijn
  • Dutch: konijn (see there for further descendants)
  • 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 Bokmål: kanin
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: 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
      • → Romansh: canign
    • → Luxembourgish: Kanéngchen
• → Scottish Gaelic: coineanach

References

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “connil”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.