hvar

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse hvar, from Proto-Germanic *hwar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰvɛaːɹ/

  Rhymes: -ɛaːɹ

Adverb

hvar (not comparable)

1. where

   Hvar fert tú? ― Where are you going?

Further reading

"hvar" at Sprotin.fo

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse hvar, from Proto-Germanic *hwar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰvaːr/
• IPA^(key): /xʷaːr/

  Rhymes: -aːr

Adverb

hvar (not comparable)

1. where (of location)

   Hvar áttu heima? ― Where do you live?

   Hvar er hann niðurkominn? ― What’s become of him?

   Hvar í ósköpunum varstu, Óskar? ― Where in heaven’s name were you, Óskar?

Derived terms

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hwar (“where”), formed with a locative suffix from the stem of *hwaz (“who”). Cognate with Old English hwær, Old Frisian hwēr, Old Saxon hwar, Old Dutch war, wara, Old High German war, Gothic 𐍈𐌰𐍂 (ƕar).

Adverb

hvar (not comparable)

1. where

Descendants

• Icelandic: hvar
• Faroese: hvar
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kvar, kor
  • Russenorsk: kor
• Old Swedish: hvar, hwor
  • Swedish: var, (pre-1906 spelling) hvar, (dialectal) hôr
• Danish: hvor
  • Norwegian Bokmål: hvor
• Gutnish: var

References

• “hvar”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hverr (from Proto-Germanic *hwarjaz) and *hver (from Proto-Germanic *hwaz), which were conflated in (late) Old Norse. Most of the inflected forms of *hwaz have since become obsolete, and what remains in form is essentially the descendant of *hwarjaz, but with an extra form for the neuter nominative and accusative singular: hvat from Old Norse hvat.

Pronoun

hvar (feminine hvar, neuter hvart)

1. who, which (of many)
2. each, every

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: var

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hvar, from Proto-Germanic *hwar.

Adverb

hvar

1. where

Descendants

• Swedish: var

Swedish

Adverb

hvar

1. Archaic spelling of var.

Conjunction

hvar

1. Archaic spelling of var.

Anagrams

• harv