Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hwār
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Proto-West Germanic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *hwar, with irregular lengthening, possibly due to influence of *hēr.
Adverb[edit]
*hwār[1]
- where (interrogative)
Descendants[edit]
- Old English: hwǣr, huœ̄r; hwār, hwēr, hwīer, wēr, wār
- Old Frisian: hwēr
- Old Saxon: hwār
- Old Dutch: war, wara
- Old High German: hwār, wār
References[edit]
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 65: “PWGmc *hwār”