hvat

== Faroese == === Etymology === From Old Norse hvat, from Proto-Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷód, *kʷod. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kvɛaːʰt/ === Pronoun === hvat n what ==== Declension ==== == Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *hwat (“what”), neuter nominative of *hwaz (“who, what”). Cognate with Old English hwæt, Old Frisian hwet, Old Saxon hwat, Old Dutch wat, Old High German waz, Gothic 𐍈𐌰 (ƕa). === Pronoun === hvat what (nominative and accusative singular neuter interrogative pronoun) what (nominative and accusative singular neuter relative pronoun) something c. 850, Þjóðólfr ór Hvíni, Haustlǫng ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: hvað Faroese: hvat Norwegian Nynorsk: kva, kvat; (dialectal) k(v)att, kåt, ka, ke, ko, kø, hot, høt, hø, ho Jamtish: hut, hvuð Old Swedish: hvat, hvadh Swedish: vad, hvad (pre-1906 spelling) Old Danish: hwat Danish: hvad Norwegian Bokmål: hva === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “hvat”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive