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cunnigarn. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French coniger. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman coninger, conyngere, conyngair, coniger, coningere, coninggre, cuninger, conier, conyer (late 13th cent. or earlier) < coninge , couning , conig , coni coney n.1 + -er , -air -ary suffix1. Compare Old French conniniere rabbit warren (1297 in a Picard source) and Middle French coninyere rabbit warren (1459, although the reading is uncertain). Compare also post-classical Latin conigera , coningarium , cunegaria , cunigarium , cuningera (frequently from early 13th cent. in British sources), probably (despite the chronology) < Anglo-Norman. Compare coneygarth n. and later coneyry n. Analysis of forms. The β. forms appear to show remodelling of the ending of the α. forms after words in -ry suffix and -ary suffix1 (compare coneyry n.) and subsequently to have been apprehended as showing a compound of δ. forms at coney n.1 with a second element in g- (especially when the β. and γ. forms at coney n.1 in final -g were becoming less common), as reflected in the word division of early modern forms such as coney-gree, connie-grea, conie-grey, etc.; formations such as coney green n. partly show later rationalization of the resulting form; compare further coneygarth n. and see discussion at that entry. Continental French parallels. Compare French †conilliere rabbit hole, rabbit warren (1611 in Cotgrave; also apparently attested as a place name from at least the early 14th cent. in Old French) < post-classical Latin cunicularia (also cunicularium ) rabbit warren (frequently from 13th cent. in British sources; compare cunicularis (adjective) relating to the rabbit (5th cent. designating a plant), cunicularius (military) miner (4th cent.)) < classical Latin cunīculus rabbit, burrow, underground passage, military mine (see coney n.1) + -āria -ary suffix1. Place-name evidence. The present word and its Anglo-Norman etymon give rise to a large number of field names with a wide variety of modern forms, such as Coninger, Conyer, Coneygree, Coneygry, etc. Compare the following early examples, although it is unclear whether these reflect the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word: le Conyngger, Warwickshire (13th cent.), le Conynger, Hodsock, Nottinghamshire (13th cent.; now Coney Garth), Coneghra, Burnham, Essex (1286; compare Coney Hall), Conynger, Cambridgeshire (1287), le Coningere, Sandiacre, Derbyshire (1298; now Cunnery Close), le Coninger, Bottesford, Lincolnshire (c1310; 1755 as ye Conygarth; now lost), le Conynger, Essex (1323), etc. Evidence from surnames. Surnames ultimately reflecting the Anglo-Norman etymon of this word are also attested from at least the early 14th cent., as e.g. Joh. del Conyngere (1327), although many are likely to derive from existing place names rather than immediately from the common noun in either Anglo-Norman or Middle English. Now rare, Irish English ( regional) and Scottish regional, or historical. the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Oryctolagus (rabbit) > burrow or warren the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun] > vagina α. 1424 (1814) II. 7/2 Distroyaris of conyngaris [1566 Cuningharis, 1597 Cunningaires] and of dowcottis. a1460 (Pembr. Cambr. 243) l. 2553 (MED) A conynger, that now they calle a myne, Goth vndir erth vnwist. c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate (1934) ii. 751 With them that forett robbe conyngerys. ?1472 E. Paston in (2004) I. 635 Yt happyd hym..in þe konynere-closse. 1473 in C. Rogers (1879) I. 188 Warandar of our kunynzare. 1519 W. Horman xxxii. f. 277 Warens, and conygers, and parkis palydde. 1550 W. Thomas Dictionarie sig. pivv, in The womans secrete connyngers. 1552 R. Huloet Conigare, or cony earth, or clapper for conies, viuarium. 1617 J. Minsheu Conieger, Conie-grey, or Warren for Conies. a1688 J. Wallace (1693) 13 There are rich cuningars almost in every Isle, well stored with Rabbets. 1701 J. Brand 37 The whole isle is but as one rich Cuningar [MS. cunnyngarth] or a Cony Warren. 1884 C. Rogers II. xiii. 271 Denizens of the Cunningar or rabbit-warren. 1959 14 177 ‘Slough’..is unknown in Meath, but they have ‘cunnigar’ a word I never heard in Louth, for a rabbit warren. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.1424 |
