Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hwaʀ

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 *hwaz.

Pronoun

*hwaʀ^[1]

who (interrogative)

Inflection

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Old English: hwā
- Middle English: who, ȝwo, ho, hoo, huo, quo, qwo, qwho, whoo, wo, woo, qua, wha (northern), hwa, hwo, hwoa (Early Middle English)
  - English: who
  - Geordie: whe
  - Scots: wha
  - Yola: fho, fo, vo
Old Frisian: hwā
- West Frisian: wa
Old Saxon: hwē
- Middle Low German: wê, wei, wie
  - Low German: we, wo, wie
  - Plautdietsch: wäa
Old Dutch: wie
- Middle Dutch: wie
  - Dutch: wie
  - Limburgish: wae
Old High German: wër, hwër; (northern) *(h)wie
- Middle High German: wër; (northern) wie, wē
  - Central Franconian: wä
  - Cimbrian: bèar, ber (Luserna)
  - German: wer
  - Yiddish: ווער (ver)

References

^ Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 125: “*hwaz”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 125: “*hwaz”

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