китъ

Old Church Slavonic

к҄итъ

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos).

Noun

к҄итъ • (kʹitŭ) m

1. whale

Descendants

• Bulgarian: кит (kit)
• Macedonian: кит (kit)
• → Old East Slavic: китъ (kitŭ), кꙑтъ (kytŭ)
  • Old Ruthenian: китъ (kit), кытъ (kyt), кітъ (kit), кѵтъ (kit)
    • Belarusian: кіт (kit)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: кыт (kŷt)
    • Ukrainian: кит (kyt)
  • Russian: кит (kit), китъ (kit) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
    • → Azerbaijani: kit
    • → Bezhta: кит (kit)
    • → Ingrian: kiitta
    • → Kazakh: кит (kit)
    • → Kyrgyz: кит (kit)
    • → Tatar: кит (kit)
    • → Turkmen: kit
    • → Uyghur: كىت (kit)
    • → Uzbek: kit
• → Romanian: chit
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: кит

  Latin script: kit

• → Slovene: kit
• → Uyghur: كىت (kit)

Old Ruthenian

китъ

Alternative forms

• кытъ (kyt), кітъ (kit), кѵтъ (kit)

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic китъ (kitŭ), кꙑтъ (kytŭ), further borrowed from Old Church Slavonic к҄итъ (kʹitŭ), in turn borrowed from Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos). Cognate with Russian кит (kit).

Noun

китъ • (kit) m animal (genitive кита, nominative plural киты, genitive plural китовъ, related adjective китовъ)

1. whale

Descendants

• Belarusian: кіт (kit)
• Carpathian Rusyn: кыт (kŷt)
• Ukrainian: кит (kyt)

Further reading

• Voitiv, H. V., editor (2008), “китъ, кітъ, кытъ”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language of 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 14 (к – конъюрация), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 104
• Bulyka, A. M., editor (1996), “китъ”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 15 (катъ – коречный), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 96

Russian

Noun

китъ • (kit) m anim (genitive кита́, nominative plural киты́, genitive plural кито́въ)

1. Pre-1918 spelling of кит (kit).

Declension

Pre-reform declension of китъ (anim masc-form hard-stem accent-b) 

	singular	plural
nominative	ки́тъ kít	киты́ kitý
genitive	кита́ kitá	кито́въ kitóv
dative	киту́ kitú	кита́мъ kitám
accusative	кита́ kitá	кито́въ kitóv
instrumental	кито́мъ kitóm	кита́ми kitámi
prepositional	китѣ́ kitě́	кита́хъ kitáx