Contionary:והט

Weddish

Etymology

From Old Frisian hwet, from Proto-Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Indo-European kʷód

Pronunciation

(Weddish) IPA: /ʍaːt/

Pronoun

וְהֵט (what)

1. what, interrogative inanimate pronoun
2. that, relative inanimate pronoun

Usage Notes

As a kind of adnominal, the relative pronoun usages of והט are a sort of adjective, and must come after the noun they modify. However, the interrogative uses are not so. Weddish typically follows wh- in situ, which means means questions do not rearrange the sentence word order. Because inanimate nouns cannot be ergative, this means that "what" will typically follow the verb, where English would put it first.