waz
Old High German
/was/
pronoun
Definitions
- what
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
- anywhat English
- elsewhat English
- everwhat English
- mostwhat English
- muchwhat English
- nighwhat English
- nowhat English
- otherwhat English
- somewhat English
- what English
- whatchoo English
- whatever English
- whath English
- whatness English
- whatnot English
- whatsoever English
- whatth English
- you-know-what English
- quod Latin
- was German
- jawadde Dutch, Flemish
- wablief Dutch, Flemish
- wat Dutch, Flemish
- *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
- hwæt Old English
- what Middle English
- hvat Old Norse
- hvatki Old Norse
- hvad Danish
- hvað Icelandic
- wat Middle Dutch
- wat Afrikaans
- hvat Faroese
- waz Middle High German
- וואָס Yiddish
- *hwat gmw-pro
- wat Old Dutch
- bas Cimbrian
- baz Cimbrian
- hwat Old Saxon
- waas Alemannic German
- hot Westrobothnian
- hvo Westrobothnian
- kad Lithuanian
- hwet Old Frisian
- ablif Papiamentu
- wataim Tok Pisin
- was Hunsrik
- wot Kriol