hwa
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See also: hwa¹
Middle English
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]hwa
- (Early Middle English) Alternative form of who (“who”, nominative)
Northern Sotho
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.
Verb
[edit]hwa
- to die
Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *hwaʀ.
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]hwā
- who (interrogative)
- c. 990, Wessex Gospels, John 5:13
- Sē þe þǣr ġehǣled wæs nysse hwā hit wæs: sē Hǣlend sōðlīċe bēag fram þǣre ġaderunge.
- The person who was healed didn't know who it was: Jesus had withdrawn from the crowd.
- c. 990, Wessex Gospels, John 5:13
- anyone, someone
Usage notes
[edit]- In the first sense, hwā refers to a person who is not yet known: Hwā forstæl mīnne fodan? ("Who stole my food?"). When enquiring further about a known person's identity, hwæt is used: Hwæt eart þū? ("Who are you?").
Declension
[edit]Declension of hwā/hwæt
Descendants
[edit]Old Frisian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *hwaʀ. Cognates include Old English hwā and Old Saxon hwē.
Pronoun
[edit]hwā
Descendants
[edit]- West Frisian: wa
Etymology 2
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *hą̄han. Cognates include Old English hōn and Old Saxon hāhan.
Alternative forms
[edit]Verb
[edit]hwā
- (transitive) to hang
References
[edit]- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN
Tarifit
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic هوى (hawa).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]hwa (Tifinagh spelling ⵀⵡⴰ)
- (intransitive) to go down, to come down, to descend
Conjugation
[edit]This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
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- Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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- Old English lemmas
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- Old Frisian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Frisian terms derived from Proto-Germanic
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- Old Frisian terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
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