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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/kotorъ

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 *koterъjь. For e/o, see also *bebrъ, *elьxa.

Determiner

*kotorъ[1]

  1. Alternative form of *koterъjь

Declension

Alternative forms

Derived terms

  • *někotorъjь (some, any)
  • *nikotorъjь (no, none)

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: като́ры (katóry)
    • Russian: кото́рый (kotóryj)
      • Kildin Sami: каторэ (katore)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: котрый (kotrŷj)
    • Ukrainian: котри́й (kotrýj)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: которꙑи (kotoryi, which?; some, any)
    • Bulgarian: котри (kotri) (Southern Dialects)
  • West Slavic:

See also

  • *(j)eterъ

Further reading

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1984), “*koterъjь/kotorъjь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 11 (*konьcь – *kotьna(ja)), Moscow: Nauka, page 201
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “который”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 436
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “который”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*koterъ; *kotorъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 240:prn. ‘who, which’
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