hvar

== Faroese == === Etymology === From Old Norse hvar, from Proto-Germanic *hwar. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kʰvɛaːɹ/ Rhymes: -ɛaːɹ === Adverb === hvar (not comparable) where Hvar fert tú? ― Where are you going? === Further reading === "hvar" at Sprotin.fo == Icelandic == === Etymology === From Old Norse hvar, from Proto-Germanic *hwar. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kʰvaːr/ IPA(key): /xʷaːr/ Rhymes: -aːr === Adverb === hvar (not comparable) where (of location) Hvar áttu heima? ― Where do you live? Hvar er hann niðurkominn? ― What’s become of him? Hvar í ósköpunum varstu, Óskar? ― Where in heaven’s name were you, Óskar? ==== Derived terms ==== == Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *hwar (“where”), formed with a locative suffix from the stem of *hwaz (“who”). Cognate with Old English hwær, Old Frisian hwēr, Old Saxon hwar, Old Dutch war, wara, Old High German war, Gothic 𐍈𐌰𐍂 (ƕar). === Adverb === hvar (not comparable) where ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: hvar Faroese: hvar Norwegian Nynorsk: kvar, kor Russenorsk: kor Old Swedish: hvar, hwor Swedish: var, (pre-1906 spelling) hvar, (dialectal) hôr Old Danish: hwar Danish: hvor Norwegian Bokmål: hvor Gutnish: var === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “hvar”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive == Old Swedish == === Etymology 1 === From Old Norse hverr (from Proto-Germanic *hwarjaz) and *hver (from Proto-Germanic *hwaz), which were conflated in (late) Old Norse. Most of the inflected forms of *hwaz have since become obsolete, and what remains in form is essentially the descendant of *hwarjaz, but with an extra form for the neuter nominative and accusative singular: hvat from Old Norse hvat. === Pronoun === hvar (feminine hvar, neuter hvart) who, which (of many) each, every === Declension === === Descendants === Swedish: var === Etymology 2 === From Old Norse hvar, from Proto-Germanic *hwar. ==== Adverb ==== hvar where === Descendants === Swedish: var == Swedish == === Adverb === hvar archaic spelling of var === Conjunction === hvar archaic spelling of var === Anagrams === harv