hwat
Old Saxon
pronoun
Definitions
- what
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *hwat (what) derived 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 Latin
- etwas German
- *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
- hwaz Old High German
- waz Old High German
- hvat Faroese
- עפּעס Yiddish
- *hwat gmw-pro
- wat Old Dutch
- wat Middle Low German
- hot Westrobothnian
- hvo Westrobothnian
- kad Lithuanian
- wat Western Frisian
- hwet Old Frisian
- wat German Low German