толико

Old East Slavic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *toliko.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɔˈlikɔ/→/tɔˈlʲikɔ/→/tɔˈlʲikɔ/

(ca. 9^th CE) IPA^(key): /tɔˈlikɔ/
(ca. 11^th CE) IPA^(key): /tɔˈlʲikɔ/
(ca. 13^th CE) IPA^(key): /tɔˈlʲikɔ/

Adverb

толико (toliko)

that much, so, so much, as much, this much
only, but
- 1199, Kievan Chronicle:
  и тако устрои бъ҃ мьглу. ꙗкоже не видѣти никаможе. толико до конець копьꙗ видити.
  i tako ustroi bŭ: mĭglu. jakože ne viděti nikamože. toliko do konecĭ kopĭja viditi.
  And God set such mist that it could be seen nothing, only seen till the end of a spear.

Descendants

Belarusian: то́лькі (tólʹki)
Russian: то́лько (tólʹko), толи́ка (tolíka)
Ukrainian: ті́льки (tílʹky), ті́лько (tílʹko), ті́вко (tívko), тіль (tilʹ)

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 509: “толи́ко ― tolíko”

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *toliko.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tolǐkoː/
Hyphenation: то‧ли‧ко

Adverb

толѝко̄ (Latin spelling tolìkō)

that much/many, so much/many, as much/many

Further reading

“толико”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025