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单词 whatten
释义

whatten

English

Etymology

Originally a contraction of what kind (of) (the DSL traces the Scots cognate back to Middle English whatkin, whatkyn, but the MED's only example is of the two-word collocation what kyn),[1][2] later used in place of bare what.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wɒtən/, /wɑtən/

Pronoun

whatten

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland, dialect, archaic) What.
    • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:whatten.
  • whatna

References

  • “WHATTEN” in Joseph Wright, editor, The English Dialect Dictionary: [], volume VI (T–Z, Supplement, Bibliography and Grammar), London: Published by Henry Frowde, [], publisher to the English Dialect Society, []; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1905, →OCLC.
  1. whatten” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
  2. what-kin, pronoun.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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