connil
French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old French connil, from Latin cunīculus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ.ni/, /kɔ.nil/
Noun
connil m (plural connils)
Further reading
- “connil”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Latin cunīculus.
Noun
connil oblique singular, m (oblique plural conniz or connilz, nominative singular conniz or connilz, nominative plural connil)
- rabbit (mammal)
- (figuratively, derogatory) idiot; imbecile (generic insult)
Descendants
- → Alemannic German: Chüngel
- → Cornish: konin
- → Irish: coinín
- → Manx: conning
- → Middle Dutch: conin, conijn
- → Middle English: coni, konyng, conynge, cunning, conig, cony, conyne, konyn
- → Middle Low German: kanīn
- German Low German: Kanien
- → Danish: kanin
- → Faroese: kanin
- → German: Kanin
- → Icelandic: kanína
- → Norwegian Bokmål: kanin
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: kanin
- → Swedish: kanin
- → 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
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (connil)