FromProto-Balto-Slavic*kúde, fromProto-Indo-European*kú-dʰe(“where”), from*kú(“where”).[1]
Baltic cognates includeLithuaniankur̃(“where”).
Indo-European cognates includeSanskritकुह(kúha,“where”),कुत्र(kútra,“where”),Latinubi(“where”),Avestan𐬐𐬎𐬛𐬁(kudā,“where”),𐬐𐬏(kū,“where”),Cretan Greekὀπυι(opyi,“whither”),Albanianku(“where”).
*kъde[2]
- where
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “где”, inOleg Trubachyov, transl.,Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*kъde”, inЭтимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 13 (*kroměžirъ – *kyžiti), Moscow: Nauka, page173
- ^Dunkel, George E. (2014),Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme [Lexicon of Indo-European Particles and Pronominal Stems] (in German), volume 2: Lexikon, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter,→ISBN, page437
- ^Derksen, Rick (2008), “*kъde”, inEtymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page259: “adv. ‘where’”
