коликъ

Old East Slavic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kolikъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔˈlikʊ//kɔˈlʲikʊ//kɔˈlʲik/
  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /kɔˈlikʊ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /kɔˈlʲikʊ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /kɔˈlʲik/

Pronoun

коликъ (kolikŭ)

  1. how big
  2. how much/many
    • XIII–XV c., Novgorod First Chronicle:
      колику бъ҃ наведе на нꙑ см҃рть тои веснꙑ
      koliku bŭ: navede na ny sm:rtĭ toi vesny
      how much death did God bring to us on that spring

Declension

Short:

Long:

References

  • Zaliznjak, Andrej A. (2019) “Drevnerusskoje udarenije: Obščije svedenija i slovarʹ.”, in Languages of Slavic Culture[1] (in Russian), Moscow: Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 426:какы́иkakýi