къто

Old Church Slavonic

Alternative forms

• Glagolitic: ⰽⱏⱅⱁ (kŭto)

Etymology

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

къто • (kŭto)

1. who (interrogative)

Declension

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

Related terms

• чьто (čĭto)
• никъто (nikŭto)

Old East Slavic

Alternative forms

• кто (kto)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʊˈtɔ/→/kʊˈtɔ/→/ˈktɔ/

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

• Hyphenation: къ‧то

Pronoun

къто (kŭto)

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

Declension

Declension of къто

Nominative	къто kŭto
Genitive	кого kogo
Dative	кому komu
Accusative	кого kogo
Instrumental	цѣмь cěmĭ
Locative	комь komĭ

Descendants

• Old Ruthenian: хто (xto), кто (kto)
  • Belarusian: хто (xto)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: хто (xto)
  • Ukrainian: хто (xto); кто (kto), фто (fto) (dialectal)
• Russian: кто (kto); хто (xto) (dialectal)

References

• 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), volumes 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1415