konev

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech, borrowed from Middle High German kanne (“jug, pitcher, can”), whence also Slovak kanva, Polish konew, Ukrainian кíнва (kínva), Russian ко́новь (kónovʹ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkonɛf]

Noun

konev f (diminutive konévka or konývka)

  1. watering can

Declension

Declension of konev (soft zero-ending feminine reducible)
singular plural
nominative konev konve
genitive konve konví
dative konvi konvím
accusative konev konve
vocative konvi konve
locative konvi konvích
instrumental konví konvemi

Derived terms

References

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ко́новь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

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