Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hwat

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 *hwat.

Pronoun

*hwat[1]

what (interrogative)

Inflection

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Old English: hwæt, huæt, huæd, huædd, huætd, huædt, hwet, wæt, whæt, hwat
- Middle English: what, whad, whote, watte, wath, wad, qhat; whæt, whæht, waht, waet, wæht, weht, hweat
  - English: what
  - Scots: what, whate, whit, whut, wha', quhat, quat, fat, faht, phat, fit, fut, fout, at
  - Yola: faade, fhaade, faad, fade, f'ad, fadere
Old Frisian: hwet
- Saterland Frisian: wät
- West Frisian: wat
Old Saxon: hwat
- Middle Low German: wat
  - Low German: wat
Old Dutch: wat
- Middle Dutch: wat
  - Afrikaans: wat
  - Dutch: wat
  - Limburgish: waat
Old High German: waz, whaz, hwaz, hwat
- Middle High German: waz, wat
  - Alemannic German: waas, waa; was, wa
  - Central Franconian: wat
  - Cimbrian: bas, baz
  - Hunsrik: was
  - German: was
  - Luxembourgish: wat
  - Yiddish: וואָס (vos)

References

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

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