Karnickel

Etymology
From earlier, from a variant of , from (see ). The form is probably based on. The -r-might have entered the word from the Brandenburg area, where non-rhotic and strongly rhotic Low German dialects neighboured. The word was probably pronounced with, a sound close to the northern Brandenburg realisation of , which is. This led to a pronunciation with for some southern, rhotic speakers, which was still considered a random idiosyncrasy in 1903.

Noun

 * 1)  rabbit