къто
Old Church Slavonic
Alternative forms
- Glagolitic: ⰽⱏⱅⱁ (kŭto)
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *kъto. Formed with a particle attached to *kъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kas, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos, *kʷid (compare *kʷis).
Pronoun
къто • (kŭto)
- who (interrogative)
Declension
Singular | |
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nominative | къто |
genitive | кого |
dative | комоу |
accusative | кого |
instrumental | цѣмь |
locative | комь |
Related terms
- чьто (čĭto)
- никъто (nikŭto)
Old East Slavic
Alternative forms
- кто (kto)
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *kъto. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic къто (kŭto) and Old Polish kto.
Pronunciation
- (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /kʊˈtɔ/
- (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /kʊˈtɔ/
- (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈktɔ/
- Hyphenation: къ‧то
Pronoun
къто (kŭto)
- (interrogative) who?
- (relative) who, that
Declension
Declension of къто
Nominative | къто kŭto |
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Genitive | кого kogo |
Dative | кому komu |
Accusative | кого kogo |
Instrumental | цѣмь cěmĭ |
Locative | комь komĭ |
Descendants
- Old Ruthenian: хто (xto), кто (kto)
- Belarusian: хто (xto)
- Rusyn: хто (xto)
- Ukrainian: хто (xto)
- Russian: кто (kto)
References
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893), “къто”, 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), volume 1: А – К, Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1415