hwæt
Old English
pronoun
Definitions
- what
- why
- how many or how much (+genitive)
- anything, something
- who (in questions and implied questions about who someone is)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *hwat (what) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *kʷod.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*kʷod
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- quod google English
- what English
- quid Latin
- quod Latin
- quodsi Latin
- que French
- que Spanish, Castilian
- *kʷod Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷod, *kʷód Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷód Proto-Indo-European
- hva Norwegian Bokmål
- *hwat Proto-Germanic
- *hwaz Proto-Germanic
- vad Swedish
- kva Norwegian Nynorsk
- bledhwæt Old English
- blēd Old English
- mochel what Middle English
- what Middle English
- cad Irish
- hvat Old Norse
- hvatki Old Norse
- hvad Danish
- hvað Icelandic
- că Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- wat Middle Dutch
- waz Old High German
- quod vide Translingual
- cid Old Irish
- hvat Faroese
- waz Middle High German
- *hwat gmw-pro
- wat Old Dutch
- que Old Portuguese
- wat Middle Low German
- hwat Old Saxon
- cã Aromanian
- hot Westrobothnian
- hvo Westrobothnian
- cu Romansh
- kad Lithuanian
- wat Western Frisian
- hwet Old Frisian
- co Dalmatian
- che Istriot