Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kakъ

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kakъ

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

Related to *kъto. Cognate to Lithuanian kóks.[1][2]

Determiner

*kȃkъ[3][4]

1. (interrogative, relative) of what/which kind

   Synonym: *jakъ

Declension

Declension of *kakъ (hard pronominal)

Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*kakъ	*kaka	*kako
Accusative	*kakъ	*kakǫ	*kako
Genitive	*kakogo	*kakoję	*kakogo
Locative	*kakomь	*kakojь	*kakomь
Dative	*kakomu	*kakojь	*kakomu
Instrumental	*kacěmь	*kakojǫ	*kacěmь
Dual	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*kaka	*kacě	*kacě
Accusative	*kaka	*kacě	*kacě
Genitive	*kakoju	*kakoju	*kakoju
Locative	*kakoju	*kakoju	*kakoju
Dative	*kacěma	*kacěma	*kacěma
Instrumental	*kacěma	*kacěma	*kacěma
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*kaci	*kaky	*kaka
Accusative	*kaky	*kaky	*kaka
Genitive	*kacěxъ	*kacěxъ	*kacěxъ
Locative	*kacěxъ	*kacěxъ	*kacěxъ
Dative	*kacěmъ	*kacěmъ	*kacěmъ
Instrumental	*kacěmi	*kacěmi	*kacěmi

Derived terms

• *kako
• *kakovъ

See also

• *jь, *čьjь, *jьnъ, *kъjь, *onъ, *ovъ, *sь, *tъ, *vьśь
• *jakъ, *jьnakъ, *kakъ, *onakъ, *ovakъ, *sicь, *takъ, *vьśakъ
• *koterъ, *jeterъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: какыи (kakyj)
    • Russian: како́й (kakój)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic: какъ (kakŭ)

    Glagolitic: [Term?]

  • Bulgarian: какъ́в (kakǎ́v)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ка̀ка̄в, ка̀кӣ

    Latin: kàkāv, kàkī

  • Slovene: kák (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: kaký
  • Polabian: koťĕ
  • Polish: kaki (obsolete)
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: kaki
    • Upper Sorbian: kajki

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*kako, *kakъ(jь)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), volume 9 (*jьz – *klenьje), Moscow: Nauka, page 118

References

1. Antoine Meillet (1934) Общеславянский язык (in Russian), translated from French, 2nd edition, Moscow: Прогресс, published 2001, →ISBN, page 354
2. Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “какой”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
3. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*kakъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 219: “prn. ‘what (kind of )’”
4. Olander, Thomas (2001), “kakъ kaka kako”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c (SA 36; PR 139)”