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Saterland Frisian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Frisian hwet, from Proto-West Germanic *hwat. Cognates include West Frisian wat and German was.
Pronoun
wät
- what?
- Wät is dut? ― What is that?
- what
- Iek weet wät dut is. ― I know what that is.
2000, Marron C. Fort, transl., Dät Näie Tästamänt un do Psoolme in ju aasterlauwerfräiske Uurtoal fon dät Seelterlound, Fräislound, Butjoarlound, Aastfräislound un do Groninger Umelounde [The New Testament and the Psalms in the East Frisian language, native to Saterland, Friesland, Butjadingen, East Frisia and the Ommelanden of Groningen], →ISBN, Dät Evangelium ätter Matthäus 1:22:Dut aal is geskäin, dät dät uutkume skuul, wät die Here truch dän Profeet kweden häd;- This all has happened, so that it would come true, what the Lord through the profet has said.
- something
- Iek häbe wät fóar die. ― I have something for you.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
wät
- imperative singular of wätje
References
- Marron C. Fort (2015) “wät”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN