чьто
Old Church Slavonic
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *čьto. Formed with a particle attached to *čь, Proto-Balto-Slavic *ki, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid, *kʷis.
Pronoun
чьто • (čĭto)
- what (interrogative)
Declension
Singular | |
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nominative | чьто |
genitive | чесо (чьсо, чесого, чьсого)* |
dative | чесомоу (чьсомоу, чемоу)* |
accusative | чьто |
instrumental | чимь |
locative | чемь (ни/о/при чесомьже)* |
* Forms in parentheses are alternative forms that are occasionally seen.
Related terms
- ничьто (ničĭto)
- нѣчьто (něčĭto)
- къто (kŭto)
Old East Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *čьto. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic чьто (čĭto) and Old Polish czso.
Pronunciation
- (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /t͡ɕɪˈtɔ/
- (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /t͡ɕɪˈtɔ/
- (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ɕtɔ/
- Hyphenation: чь‧то
Pronoun
чьто (čĭto)
- (interrogative) what?
- (relative) what, that
- 1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik, page 2:
- нъ пораꙁоумѣи чьто гл҃ють книгꙑ и словеса та·
- but understand what the books say and the words, too
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Declension
Declension of чьто
Nominative | чьто čĭto |
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Genitive | чего čego |
Dative | чему čemu |
Accusative | чьто čĭto |
Instrumental | чимь čimĭ |
Locative | чемь čemĭ |
Descendants
- Old Ruthenian: што (što)
- Belarusian: што (što), шо (šo) (nonstandard)
- Rusyn: што (što)
- Ukrainian: що (ščo), шо (šo) (dialectal), што (što) (dialectal)
- Russian: что (što), шо (šo) (nonstandard)
References
- Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912), “чьто”, 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 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1579