köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic къи (kŷi), from Proto-Slavic *kъjь (“who, what, which”), from *kъ (“who”) + *-jь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kas (“who”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos (“who”).
köken: Inherited from Middle Persian 𐭪𐭲𐭠𐭬 (ktʾm /kadām/), Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫐𐫅𐫀𐫖 (kdʾm), Northern Luri کوم (kom), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷi-, *kʷo-. See there for cognates.
köken: From *qayïsï "which", which is a possessive form of *qayï "which", from Proto-Turkic *ka- (“interrogative particle”). Cognate with Tatar кайсы (qaysı), Kazakh қайсы (qaisy), Southern Altai кажы (kažï), кайсы (kaysï) Kumyk къайсы (qaysı), Uzbek qaysi, Uyghur قايسى (qaysi), Khakas хайзы (xayzı), etc.
köken: From *qaysï "which", which is a possessive form of *qay "which", from Proto-Turkic *ka- (“interrogative particle”). Cognate with Tatar кайсы (qaysı), Kazakh қайсы (qaisy), Kyrgyz кайсы (kaysı), Uzbek qaysi, Uyghur قايسى (qaysi), Khakas хайзы (xayzı), etc.
köken: From Old Swedish som or sum, in Runic inscriptions also sim, same as Icelandic sem, from Old Norse sem. Also related to the prefix sam- (“co-, common, together”) and suffix -sam (“-some, -like”). Still in the Poetic Edda, the Icelandic sem is only used as a comparative particle, e.g. Hávamál 23 allt er víl sem var (And his woe is just as it was). With time it has displaced other relative…
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- Proto-Indo-European *kʷos Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *kʷóteros Proto-Balto-Slavic *kateras Proto-Slavic *koterъ Proto-Slavic *kotorъ Old Polish który Polish który Inherited from Old Polish który.
who, which, that (referring to the previous word or phrase; see usage notes)
köken: From Proto-Finnic *joka (compare Karelian joka, Votic jõka), from Proto-Finno-Permic *jo (compare Northern Sami juohkẹ, juogọ, Erzya ю- (ju-) in юза-тоза (juza-toza, “back and forth”), Eastern Mari южо (južo, “some”), Western Mari юж (juž, “some”)). The nominative and genitive singular forms, which would have otherwise been monosyllabic, have been extended with -ka (as with kuka and mikä).
Jos putoaa jäihin, kannattaa palata samaa reittiä, jota pitkin oli tullutkin.
Hän säveltää harrastuksenaan musiikkia, jossa hän onkin taitava.