колико

Old East Slavic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *koliko.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔˈlikɔ/→/kɔˈlʲikɔ/→/kɔˈlʲikɔ/

• (ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /kɔˈlikɔ/
• (ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /kɔˈlʲikɔ/
• (ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /kɔˈlʲikɔ/

Adverb

колико (koliko)

1. how much, how many
   • 1352, Novgorod First Chronicle:

     а на полатѣхъ и въ стѣнахъ · и въ съсудохранильници · не вѣде колико злата и сребра

     a na polatěxŭ i vŭ stěnaxŭ · i vŭ sŭsudoxranilĭnici · ne věde koliko zlata i srebra

     and on platforms, and in walls, and in vessel storage, no one knows how much gold and silver

Descendants

• Belarusian: ко́лькі (kólʹki)
• ⇒ Russian: ско́лько (skólʹko)
• Carpathian Rusyn: кі́лько (kílʹko)
• Ukrainian: скі́льки (skílʹky), кі́льки (kílʹky), кі́лько (kílʹko)

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 509: “коли́ко ― kolíko”

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *koliko.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kolǐko/
• Hyphenation: ко‧ли‧ко

Adverb

колѝко (Latin spelling kolìko)

1. (interrogatively) how much, how many

   колико имаш година? ― How old are you?

   колико имаш јабука? ― How many apples do you have?

   колико је сати? ― What time is it?

   колико пута? ― How many times?

   колико дуго? ― (For) how long?

2. as much as, as many as, as

   купи онолико играчака колико је дјеце. ― Buy as many toys as there are children.

   она је скоро интелигентна колико и ја. ― She is almost as intelligent as I am.

3. (ма̏ + ~, ~ + год) no matter how much

   колико год му даш, никад му није доста. ― No matter how much you give him, it's never enough for him.

Further reading

• “колико”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026