Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kъjь

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 *kas-is. Morphologically from *kъ(to) +‎ *jь.

Determiner

*kъjь

  1. which

Declension

This determiner needs an inflection-table template.

See also

Derived terms

  • *někъjь (certain)
  • *nikъjь (no, none)

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: къи (kŷi), кꙑи (kyi); къ ()
      • Old Ruthenian: кой (koj), кїй (kij)
      • Russian: кой (koj), коё (kojó), каё (kajó) (dialectal)
    • Old Novgorodian: кеи (kei)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Glagolitic script: ⰽⱏⰻ (ky), ⰽⱏⰺⰻ (kyi)
      Old Cyrillic script: къи (kŷi), кꙑи (kyi)
      • Bulgarian: кой (koj); къй (kǎj) (dialectal)
      • Macedonian: кој (koj)
    • Old Serbo-Croatian: ki
    • Slovene: koji, , káj (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: ; kéž
    • Old Polish: ki
      • Polish: ki; kay (dialectal)
    • Old Slovak:
      • Pannonian Rusyn: ки (ki)
      • Slovak:
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: ka (archaic); kiž
      • Upper Sorbian: kenž

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “кой”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress