комонь

There are two theories about its origin:

• (Vasmer, Skok, Długosz-Kurczabowa, Holub/Kopečný): from *komňь, from early *kobňь, akin to *kobyla (“mare”). Compare Latin caballus (“working horse”), Proto-Celtic *kapallos (> Old Irish capall).
• (Brückner, Długosz-Kurczabowa): from *komňь, related to komosić (“make wild, enrage”) cognate with Lithuanian kumelė (“mare”), Old Prussian kamnet (“horse”). (Note, however, that komosić does not seem to exist in East or South Slavic and therefore probably is not very old and that Skok explains the similar verbs komešati (“stir, mix”) and kovitlati (“gyrate, form an eddy”) with a prefix *ko-.)

• (ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔmɔnʲɪ/
• (ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔmɔnʲɪ/
• (ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔmɔːnʲ/
• Hyphenation: ко‧мо‧нь

комонь (komonĭ) m

1. Synonym of конь (konĭ)

• Middle Russian: комонь (komonʹ)

• Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “комонь”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volumes 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1266