hwæþer
Old English
Alternative forms
- hƿæþer — wynn spelling
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hwaþeraz, whence also Old High German wedar, Old Norse hvaðarr.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
hwæþer
- which (of two)
Conjunction
hwæþer
- whether
- used to introduce a question
Descendants
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “Hwæþer”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.