Bulgarian

Noun

конец • ‎(konéc) m

1. thread
2. (medicine) catgut

Inflection

Macedonian

Noun

конец • ‎(konec) m

1. thread

Inflection

Russian

Etymology

From Old East Slavic коньць ‎(konĭcĭ, “end; edge, border”), from Proto-Slavic *konьcь ‎(“end”), from *konъ ‎(“beginning; end”) +‎ *-ьcь, from *čęti ‎(“to begin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kɐˈnʲet͡s]

Noun

коне́ц • ‎(konéc) m inan ‎(genitive конца́, nominative plural концы́, genitive plural концо́в)

1. end
2. ending, close, termination
3. death
4. (familiar) distance, way
5. (anatomy, colloquial) male sex member
6. (nautical) rope
7. One of the five boroughs or Kontsy into which medieval Novgorod was divided.

Declension

Related terms

• нача́ть ‎(načátʹ, “to begin”)
  • нача́ло ‎(načálo, “beginning”)

Derived terms

• зако́нчить ‎(zakónčitʹ)
• коне́чно ‎(konéčno)
• коне́чность ‎(konéčnostʹ)
• коне́чный ‎(konéčnyj)
• конча́ть ‎(končátʹ)
• наконе́ц ‎(nakonéc)

References

• Fasmer, Maks (1964–1973), “конец”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačev O. N., Moscow: Progress
• Sreznevskij, I. I. (1893), “коньць”, in Materialy dlja slovarja drevne-russkago jazyka po pisʹmennym pamjatnikam [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old Russian Language According to Written Monuments] (in Russian), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 1273