Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nikъto

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From *ni- +‎ *kъto.

Pronoun

*nikъto

1. nobody

Declension

Declension of *nikъto (pronominal, irregular)

All numbers	Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	*nikъto	*ničьto
Accusative	*nikъto	*ničьto
Genitive	*nikogo	*ničeso
Locative	*nikomь	*ničemь
Dative	*nikomu	*ničemu
Instrumental	*nicěmь	*ničimь

Related terms

• *ničьto (“nothing”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: ніхто́ (nixtó)
  • Russian: никто́ (niktó), нихто́ (nixtó) (regional)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: нихто (nyxto), нико (nyko)
  • Ukrainian: ніхто́ (nixtó)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: никъто (nikŭto)

    Glagolitic script: [Term?]

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ни̏тко (Štokavian, Croatia), ни̏ко (Štokavian, Bosnia, Serbia), никдо (Kajkavian)

    Latin script: nȉtko (Štokavian, Croatia), nȉko (Štokavian, Bosnia, Serbia), nikdo (Kajkavian)

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: nikto, nikte
    • Czech: nikdo
  • Old Polish: nikt
    • Polish: nikt
    • Silesian: nikt
  • Slovak: nikto
  • Polabian: nekåtü
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: nicht
    • Slovincian: njicht
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: nicht
    • Upper Sorbian: ništó

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “никто́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress