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. Perhaps a piecewise doublet of *čьjь (further compare Ancient Greek ποῖος (poîos) and Latin cuius (< quoius) for the formation).

Determiner

*kъjь

1. which

Declension

This determiner needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: къи (kŷi), кꙑи (kyi); къ (kŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: кой (koj), кїй (kij)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: кый (kŷj)
      • Ukrainian: кий (kyj); кой (koj) (dialectal)
    • 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
    • Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: ко̀јӣ; ка̏ј, ки̑ј, ки (dialectal)

      Latin script: kòjī; kȁj, kȋj, ki (dialectal)

  • Slovene: koji, kí, káj (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: ký; ⇒ kéž
    • Czech: ký; kay (dialectal)
  • Old Polish: ki
    • Polish: ki; kay (dialectal)
  • Old Slovak: ký
    • Pannonian Rusyn: ки (ki)
    • Slovak: ký
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: ka (archaic); ⇒ kiž
    • ⇒ Upper Sorbian: kenž

See also

• *jь, *čьjь, *jьnъ, *kъjь, *onъ, *ovъ, *sь, *tъ, *vьśь
• *jakъ, *jьnakъ, *kakъ, *onakъ, *ovakъ, *sicь, *takъ, *vьśakъ
• *koterъ, *eterъ

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