китъ

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos).

к҄итъ • (kʹitŭ) m

1. whale

• 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-1918 spelling
    • → 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)

• кытъ (kyt), кітъ (kit), кѵтъ (kit)

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).

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

1. whale

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

• 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

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

1. Pre-1918 spelling of кит (kit).