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English
Etymology
Originally a contraction of what kind (of) (the DSL traces the Scots cognate back to Middle English whatkin, whatkyn, but the MED's only example is of the two-word collocation what kyn),[1][2] later used in place of bare what.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
whatten
- (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland, dialect, archaic) What.
References
- Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “WHATTEN”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: , volume VI (T–Z, Supplement, Bibliography and Grammar), London: Henry Frowde, , publisher to the English Dialect Society, ; New York, N.Y.: G P Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.
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