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къто

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Old Church Slavonic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited 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

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къто (kŭto)

  1. who (interrogative)

Declension

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Singular
nominative къто
genitive кого
dative комоу
accusative кого
instrumental цѣмь
locative комь
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Old East Slavic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kъto. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic къто (kŭto) and Old Polish kto.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kʊˈtɔ//kʊˈtɔ//ˈktɔ/
  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /kʊˈtɔ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /kʊˈtɔ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈktɔ/

  • Hyphenation: къ‧то

Pronoun

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къто (kŭto)

  1. (interrogative) who?
  2. (relative) who, that

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Old Ruthenian: хто (xto), кто (kto)
  • Russian: кто (kto); хто (xto) (dialectal)

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