Clipping ofEnglishHwané.
hwa
- (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forWané.
hwa
- (Early Middle English)alternative form ofwho(“who”,nominative)
FromProto-Bantu*-kúa.
hwa
- todie
FromProto-West Germanic*hwaʀ.
hwā
- who (interrogative)
- c. 990,Wessex Gospels,John 5:13
Sē þe þǣr ġehǣled wæs nyssehwā hit wæs: sē Hǣlend sōðlīċe bēag fram þǣre ġaderunge.- The one that was healed didn't knowwho it was: Jesus had truly withdrawn from the crowd.
- anyone
- someone
- 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?”, literally“What art thou?”).
- Unlike the broader relative pronoun use of Modern Englishwho,hwā typically only forms relative clauses that function asindirect questions. For example, the relative clause introduced byhwā in the statementHēo nāthwā þā twā bēċ write(“She doesn't knowwho wrote the two books”) implies the direct questionhwā write þā twā bēċ?(“who wrote the two books?”). For relative clauses that are not indirect questions, the usual strategies of usingsē and/orþe are overwhelmingly preferred:Hē issē þe wrāt þā twā bēċ(“He isthe one who wrote the two books”). However, this is only a generalisation.
- Middle English:who,ȝwo,ho,hoo,huo,quo,qwo,qwho,whoo,wo,woo,qua,wha(northern),hwa,hwo,hwoa(Early Middle English)
FromProto-West Germanic*hwaʀ. Cognates includeOld Englishhwā andOld Saxonhwē.
hwā
- (interrogative)who?
- (relative)who,that
- Synonyms:thī,thiu
- (indefinite)whoever,anyone
- Synonyms:hwāsā,ēnich
FromProto-West Germanic*hą̄han. Cognates includeOld Englishhōn andOld Saxonhāhan.
hwā
- (transitive) tohang
- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009),An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company,→ISBN
Borrowed fromMoroccan Arabicهوى(hawa).
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hwa (Tifinagh spellingⵀⵡⴰ)
- (intransitive) togo down, tocome down, todescend
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