Where does “k'o” come from?
k'o (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Serbo-Croatian kȁo, from Serbo-Croatian kȁko, from Proto-Slavic kako, from Proto-Slavic kakъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kōkos.
Ancestry of “k'o”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Serbo-Croatian | kȁo | — |
| 2 | Serbo-Croatian | kȁko | — |
| 3 | Proto-Slavic | kako | how, in which way |
| 4 | Proto-Slavic | kakъ | of what/which kind |
| 5 | Proto-Balto-Slavic | *kōkos | — |