Kiou
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Polish Kijów. Doublet of Kyiv and Kiev.
Proper noun
[edit]Kiou
- (obsolete) Kyiv
- 1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Asia.] Of the Tartarians, and of diuers Nations which they subdued; with their Pristine Rites.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book IV (Of the Armenians, Medes, Persians, Parthians, Scythians, Tartarians, Chinois, and of Their Religions), page 339:
- Thence they paſſed into Ruſſia, and made foule hauocke there, deſtroying Kiou, the chiefe Citie.