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== Weddish == | == [[Weddish]] == | ||
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From Old Frisian hwet, from Proto-Germanic [[wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hwat|*hwat]], from Proto-Indo-European [[wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/kʷís|kʷód]] | From Old Frisian hwet, from Proto-Germanic [[wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hwat|*hwat]], from Proto-Indo-European [[wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/kʷís|kʷód]] | ||
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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. | 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. | ||
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Latest revision as of 22:21, 9 April 2019
Weddish
Etymology
From Old Frisian hwet, from Proto-Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Indo-European kʷód
Pronunciation
(Weddish) IPA: /ʍaːt/
Pronoun
וְהֵט (what)
- what, interrogative inanimate pronoun
- 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.
