hwæs
Middle English
editPronoun
edithwæs
- (Early Middle English) Alternative form of whos (“whose”, genitive)
Old English
editEtymology 1
editFrom Proto-Germanic *hwes, genitive case of *hwaz (“who, what”).
Pronunciation
editPronoun
edithwæs
Descendants
edit- Middle English: whos, hoes, hos, hose, hosse, hoys, huas, qwoys, was, whas, whoes, whois, whoos, whose, wos, wose; quas, whase, whayse; hwas, hwæs, hwes, hwos
Etymology 2
editFrom Proto-Germanic *hwassaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷh₁dstós. Compare Old Norse hvass (“sharp, keen”).
Adjective
edithwæs
Declension
editDeclension of hwæs — Strong
Declension of hwæs — Weak
References
edit- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “hwæs”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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