Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hwarjaz

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This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

From earlier *kʷoryos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷ-.

Pronunciation

Determiner

*hwarjaz

  1. (interrogative) which, what (of many)

Inflection


Derived terms

Descendants

  • Old Norse: hverr (paradigm merged with *hwaz)
    • Icelandic: hver
    • Faroese: hvør
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: kvar, kven
    • Old Swedish: hvar (acc. fem. hvaria)
    • Danish: hver
      • Norwegian Bokmål: hver
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  • Gothic: 𐍈𐌰𐍂𐌾𐌹𐍃 (ƕarjis)

Further reading

  • Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN