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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