Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hwār
Proto-West Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *hwar, with irregular lengthening, possibly due to influence of *hēr.
Adverb
edit*hwār[1]
- where (interrogative)
Descendants
edit- Old English: hwǣr, huœ̄r — Northumbrian; hwār, hwēr, hwīer, wēr, wār
- Old Frisian: hwēr
- Old Saxon: hwār, hwar
- 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”