Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kakъ

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *kōkos, related to *kъto (“who”). Cognate to Lithuanian kõks.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Determiner

*kȃkъ^[1]^[4]

(interrogative, relative) of what/which kind
Synonym: *jakъ

Declension

Declension of *kakъ
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*kakъ	*kaka	*kako
Accusative	*kakъ	*kakǫ	*kako
Genitive	*kakogo	*kakoję̇	*kakogo
Locative	*kakomь	*kakoji	*kakomь
Dative	*kakomu	*kakoji	*kakomu
Instrumental	*kacěmь	*kakojǫ	*kacěmь
Dual	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*kaka	*kacě	*kacě
Accusative	*kaka	*kacě	*kacě
Genitive	*kakoju	*kakoju	*kakoju
Locative	*kakoju	*kakoju	*kakoju
Dative	*kacěma	*kacěma	*kacěma
Instrumental	*kacěma	*kacěma	*kacěma
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*kaci	*kaky	*kaka
Accusative	*kaky	*kaky	*kaka
Genitive	*kacěxъ	*kacěxъ	*kacěxъ
Locative	*kacěxъ	*kacěxъ	*kacěxъ
Dative	*kacěmъ	*kacěmъ	*kacěmъ
Instrumental	*kacěmi	*kacěmi	*kacěmi

Derived terms

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: какыи (kakyi)
  - Russian: како́й (kakój)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: какъ (kakŭ)
  
  Glagolitic script: [Term?]
- Bulgarian: какъ́в (kakǎ́v)
- Macedonian: каков (kakov)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ка̀ка̄в, ка̀кӣ
  
  Latin script: kàkāv, kàkī
- Slovene: kák (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: kaký
- Polabian: koťĕ
- Polish: kaki (obsolete)
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: kaki
  - Upper Sorbian: kajki

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008) “*kakъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 219: “prn. ‘what (kind of )’”
^ Antoine Meillet (1934) Общеславянский язык (in Russian), 2nd edition, translated from French, Moscow: Прогресс, published 2001, →ISBN, page 354
^ Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “какой”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “kakъ kaka kako”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c (SA 36; PR 139)”