кто

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Old East Slavic

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Pronoun

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кто (kto)

  1. Alternative spelling of къто (kŭto)
    • 1377, Dmitry of Suzdal, Laurentian Codex[1], page 1:
      кто въ києвѣ нача первѣє кнѧжит и ѿкуду рускаꙗ ꙁемлѧ стала єсть⁘
      kto vŭ kijevě nača pervěe knęžit i otŭkudu ruskaja zemlę stala estĭ⁘
      Who in Kiev first started to reign and whence the Russian land has started to be.

References

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  • 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]‎[2] (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1415

Russian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old East Slavic къто (kŭto), from Proto-Slavic *kъto, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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кто (ktom

  1. (interrogative) who
    Кто э́то?Kto éto?Who’s this?
    Я не зна́ю, кто э́то сде́лал.Ja ne znáju, kto éto sdélal.I don’t know who did this.
  2. (relative) who
    Тот, кто э́то сде́лал.Tot, kto éto sdélal.The one who did it.

Declension

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Derived terms

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Serbo-Croatian

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Pronoun

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кто (Latin spelling kto)

  1. Obsolete form of тко.