чьто

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Old Church Slavonic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *čьto. Formed with a particle attached to *čь, Proto-Balto-Slavic *ki, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid, *kʷis.

Pronoun

чьто (čĭto)

  1. what (interrogative)

Declension

Singular
nominative чьто
genitive чесо
(чьсо, чесого, чьсого)*
dative чесомоу
(чьсомоу, чемоу)*
accusative чьто
instrumental чимь
locative чемь
(ни/о/при чесомьже)*

* Forms in parentheses are alternative forms that are occasionally seen.

Related terms

Old East Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *čьto. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic чьто (čĭto) and Old Polish czso.

Pronunciation

  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /t͡ɕɪˈtɔ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /t͡ɕɪˈtɔ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ɕtɔ/
  • Hyphenation: чь‧то

Pronoun

чьто (čĭto)

  1. (interrogative) what?
  2. (relative) what, that
    • 1076, Sviatoslav's izbornik, page 2:
      нъ пораꙁоумѣи чьто гл҃ють книгꙑ и словеса та·
      nŭ porazuměi čĭto gl:jutĭ knigy i slovesa ta·
      but understand what the books say and the words, too

Declension

Descendants

  • Old Ruthenian: што (što)
    • Belarusian: што (što), шо (šo) (nonstandard)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: што (što)
    • Ukrainian: що (ščo), шо (šo) (dialectal), што (što) (dialectal)
  • Russian: что (što), шо (šo) (nonstandard)

References

  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “чьто”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volumes 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1579