hvat
Faroese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse hvat, from Proto-Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷód, *kʷod.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
hvat n
Declension edit
Interrogative pronoun - spurnarfornavn | |||
Singular (eintal) | m | f | n |
Nominative (hvørfall) | hvør | hvør | hvat |
Accusative (hvønnfall) | hvønn | hvørja | |
Dative (hvørjumfall) | hvørjum | hvørjari / hvørji | hvørjum |
Genitive (hvørsfall) | hvørs | (hvørjar) | hvørs |
Plural (fleirtal) | m | f | n |
Nominative (hvørfall) | hvørjir | hvørjar | hvørji |
Accusative (hvønnfall) | hvørjar | ||
Dative (hvørjumfall) | hvørjum | ||
Genitive (hvørsfall) | hvørja |
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *hwat (“what”), neuter nominative of *hwaz (“who, what”). Cognate with Old English hwæt, Old Frisian hwet, Old Saxon hwat, Old Dutch wat, Old High German waz, Gothic 𐍈𐌰 (ƕa).
Pronoun edit
hvat
- what (nominative and accusative singular neuter interrogative pronoun)
- what (nominative and accusative singular neuter relative pronoun)
Declension edit
Declension of hvar
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: hvað
- Faroese: hvat
- Norwegian Nynorsk: kva, kvat; (dialectal) k(v)att, kåt, ka, ke, ko, kø, hot, høt, hø, ho
- Jamtish: hut, hvuð
- Old Swedish: hvat, hvadh
- Old Danish: hwat
References edit
- “hvat”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press