Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hwat
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This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence. |
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hwat.
Pronoun
- what (interrogative)
Inflection
This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- 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
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 125: “*hwat”