Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hwaʀ
Proto-West Germanic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *hwaz.
Pronoun edit
*hwaʀ[1]
- who (interrogative)
Inflection edit
This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants edit
- Old English: hwā
- Old Frisian: hwā
- West Frisian: wa
- Old Saxon: hwē
- Old Dutch: wie
- Old High German: wer, hwer; (northern) *(h)wie
References edit
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 125: “*hwaz”