китъ

Old Church Slavonic

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos).

Noun

к҄итъ • (kʹitŭ) m

1. whale

Descendants

• Bulgarian: кит (kit)
• Macedonian: кит (kit)
• → Russian: кит (kit), китъ (kit) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
  • → Azerbaijani: kit
  • → Bezhta: кит (kit)
  • → Ingrian: kiitta
  • → Kazakh: кит (kit)
  • → Kyrgyz: кит (kit)
  • → Tatar: кит (kit)
  • → Turkmen: kit
  • → Uyghur: كىت (kit)
  • → Uzbek: kit
• → Serbo-Croatian: кит
• → Slovene: kit
• → Ukrainian: кит (kyt)
• → Uyghur: كىت (kit)

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Russian

Noun

китъ • (kit) m anim (genitive кита́, nominative plural киты́, genitive plural кито́въ)

1. Pre-1918 spelling of кит (kit).

Declension

Pre-reform declension of китъ (anim masc-form hard-stem accent-b) 

	singular	plural
nominative	ки́тъ kít	киты́ kitý
genitive	кита́ kitá	кито́въ kitóv
dative	киту́ kitú	кита́мъ kitám
accusative	кита́ kitá	кито́въ kitóv
instrumental	кито́мъ kitóm	кита́ми kitámi
prepositional	китѣ́ kitě́	кита́хъ kitáx