кто

Old East Slavic

Pronoun

кто (kto)

  1. Alternative spelling of къто (kŭto)
    • 1377, Dmitry of Suzdal, Laurentian Codex‎, page 1:
      кто въ києвѣ нача первѣє кнѧжит и ѿкуду рускаꙗ ꙁемлѧ стала єсть⁘
      kto vŭ kievě nača pervěe knęžit i otŭkudu ruskaja zemlę stala estĭ⁘
      Who in Kiev first started to reign and whence the Russian land has started to be.

References

Russian

Alternative forms

  • хто (xto) – nonstandard, regional

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic къто (kŭto), from Proto-Slavic *kъto, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kto]
  • (South-European Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, non-standard) IPA(key): [xto] (phonetic respelling: хто)
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -o

Pronoun

кто • (kto) m

  1. (interrogative) who
    Кто э́то? ― Kto éto? ― Who’s this?
    Я не зна́ю, кто э́то сде́лал. ― Ja ne znáju, kto éto sdélal. ― I don’t know who did this.
  2. (relative) who
    Тот, кто э́то сде́лал. ― Tot, kto éto sdélal. ― The one who did it.

Declension

Derived terms

Russian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kʷe-‎ (0 c, 11 e)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronoun

кто (Latin spelling kto)

  1. Obsolete form of тко.
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