hwæte

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Middle English

Noun

hwæte

(Early Middle English) Alternative form of whete

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hwaitī.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈxwæː.te/,

Noun

hwǣte m

wheat

Declension

Declension of hwǣte (strong ja-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	hwǣte	—
accusative	hwǣte	—
genitive	hwǣtes	—
dative	hwǣte	—

Derived terms

hwǣten

Descendants

Middle English: whete, ȝwete, huete, weete, wete, wheete, whet, whette, wheyte, wheytt, whiett, whyte, quete, quheyt, qwet, qwhete (Northern), hwæte, hweate, hwete, whæte (Early Middle English)
- English: wheat
- Middle Scots: quhete^[1]
  - Scots: white, wheat, wheyt^[2]
- Yola: whet

References

^ “quhete”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
^ “white”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

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