какъ

Old East Slavic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kȃkъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kōkos.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑkʊ//ˈkakʊ//ˈkak/
  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ˈkɑkʊ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ˈkakʊ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈkak/

Pronoun

какъ (kakŭ)

  1. what, which
  2. what kind/type/sort
    • 1076, Izbornik of 1076:
      не вѣси бо како бꙋдеть раздрушениѥ ѥго
      ne věsi bo kako budetĭ razdrušenije jego
      for thou dost not know, what kind of his fall will be

Declension

Short:

Long:

Descendants

  • Russian: како́й (kakój)

References

  • Zaliznjak, Andrej A. (2019) “Drevnerusskoje udarenije: Obščije svedenija i slovarʹ.”, in Languages of Slavic Culture[1] (in Russian), Moscow: Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 426:какы́иkakýi