Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hwat
Proto-West Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *hwat.
Pronoun
edit*hwat[1]
- what (interrogative)
Inflection
editThis pronoun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
edit- Old English: hwæt, huæt, huæd, huædd, huætd, huædt, hwet, wæt, whæt, hwat
- Old Frisian: hwet
- Old Saxon: hwat
- Old Dutch: wat
- Old High German: waz, whaz, hwaz, hwat
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: “*hwat”