кто

кто (kto)

1. alternative spelling of къто (kŭto)
   • 1377, Dmitry of Suzdal, Laurentian Codex‎^[1], page 1:

     кто въ києвѣ нача первѣє кнѧжит и ѿкуду рускаꙗ ꙁемлѧ стала єсть⁘

     kto vŭ kijevě nača pervěje knęžit i otŭkudu ruskaja zemlę stala jestĭ⁘

     Who in Kiev first started to reign and whence the Russian land has started to be.

• 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]‎^[2] (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1415

• хто (xto) — nonstandard, regional

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

• IPA^(key): [kto]

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• (South-European Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, nonstandard) IPA^(key): [xto] (phonetic respelling: хто)
• Rhymes: -o

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.

кто (Latin spelling kto)

1. obsolete form of тко