Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hwat

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed words 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
- Middle English: what, whet
  - Scots: whit, fit, what
  - English: what
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
  - Central Franconian: wat
  - Cimbrian: bas
  - 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”

[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”