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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
- Compare Lithuanian kadà (“when”), East Lithuanian kadù, Old Prussian kaden, kadden, Latvian kad (“when”), Sanskrit कदा (kadā, “when”), Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬛𐬁 (kadā, “when”).
Adverb
*kogъda
- when
See also
Derived terms
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: когда (kogda)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “когда”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1983), “*kogъda / *kogъdy”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 10 (*klepačь – *konь), Moscow: Nauka, page 108
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008) “*kogъda; *kogъdy”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 227: “adv./conj. ‘when’”