Kiou

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish Kijów. Doublet of Kyiv and Kiev.

Proper noun

Kiou

  1. (obsolete) Kyiv
    • 1613, Samuel Purchas, “ Of the Tartarians, and of diuers Nations which they subdued; with their Pristine Rites.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. , London: William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, , →OCLC, book IV (Of the Armenians, Medes, Persians, Parthians, Scythians, Tartarians, Chinois, and of Their Religions), page 339:
      Thence they paſſed into Ruſſia, and made foule hauocke there, deſtroying Kiou, the chiefe Citie.