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"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic: *hwat\nOld English: hwæt, huæt, huæd, huædd, huætd, huædt, hwet, wæt, whæt, hwat\nMiddle English: what, whad, whote, watte, wath, wad, qhat; whæt, whæht, waht, waet, wæht, weht, hweat\nEnglish: what\nScots: what, whate, whit, whut, wha', quhat, quat, fat, faht, phat, fit, fut, fout, at\nYola: faade, fhaade, faad, fade, f'ad, fadere\nOld Frisian: hwet\nSaterland Frisian: wät\nWest Frisian: wat\nOld Saxon: hwat\nMiddle Low German: wat\nLow German: wat\nOld Dutch: wat\nMiddle Dutch: wat\nAfrikaans: wat\nDutch: wat\nLimburgish: waat\nOld High German: waz, whaz, hwaz, hwat\nMiddle High German: waz, wat\nAlemannic German: waas, waa; was, wa\nCentral Franconian: wat\nCimbrian: bas, baz\nHunsrik: was\nGerman: was\nLuxembourgish: wat\nYiddish: וואָס (vos)",
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"text": "Proto-West Germanic: *hwat\nOld English: hwæt, huæt, huæd, huædd, huætd, huædt, hwet, wæt, whæt, hwat\nMiddle English: what, whad, whote, watte, wath, wad, qhat; whæt, whæht, waht, waet, wæht, weht, hweat\nEnglish: what\nScots: what, whate, whit, whut, wha', quhat, quat, fat, faht, phat, fit, fut, fout, at\nYola: faade, fhaade, faad, fade, f'ad, fadere\nOld Frisian: hwet\nSaterland Frisian: wät\nWest Frisian: wat\nOld Saxon: hwat\nMiddle Low German: wat\nLow German: wat\nOld Dutch: wat\nMiddle Dutch: wat\nAfrikaans: wat\nDutch: wat\nLimburgish: waat\nOld High German: waz, whaz, hwaz, hwat\nMiddle High German: waz, wat\nAlemannic German: waas, waa; was, wa\nCentral Franconian: wat\nCimbrian: bas, baz\nHunsrik: was\nGerman: was\nLuxembourgish: wat\nYiddish: וואָס (vos)"
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"expansion": "Old Norse: hvat\nIcelandic: hvað\nFaroese: hvat\nNorwegian Nynorsk: kva, kvat; (dialectal) k(v)att, kåt, ka, ke, ko, kø, hot, høt, hø, ho\nJamtish: hut, hvuð\nOld Swedish: hvat, hvadh\nSwedish: vad, hvad (pre-1906 spelling)\nOld Danish: hwat\nDanish: hvad\nNorwegian Bokmål: hva",
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}
],
"text": "Old Norse: hvat\nIcelandic: hvað\nFaroese: hvat\nNorwegian Nynorsk: kva, kvat; (dialectal) k(v)att, kåt, ka, ke, ko, kø, hot, høt, hø, ho\nJamtish: hut, hvuð\nOld Swedish: hvat, hvadh\nSwedish: vad, hvad (pre-1906 spelling)\nOld Danish: hwat\nDanish: hvad\nNorwegian Bokmål: hva"
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"name": "cog"
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"name": "cog"
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"2": "hvat"
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"expansion": "Old Norse hvat",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "got",
"2": "𐍈𐌰"
},
"expansion": "Gothic 𐍈𐌰 (ƕa)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *hwat. Compare Old English hwæt, Old Frisian hwet, Old High German hwaz, Old Norse hvat, Gothic 𐍈𐌰 (ƕa).",
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"form": "no-table-tags",
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"table-tags"
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"source": "declension",
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"form": "hwat",
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"impersonal",
"nominative"
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"source": "declension",
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"nominative",
"personal"
]
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{
"form": "hwat",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"impersonal"
]
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"form": "hwēna",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"personal"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"impersonal"
]
},
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"personal"
]
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{
"form": "hwēmu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"impersonal"
]
},
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"form": "hwēmu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"personal"
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"2": "pronoun",
"cat2": "interrogative pronouns",
"g": "n"
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"name": "head"
}
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"2": "hwat",
"3": "hwes",
"4": "hwēmu",
"5": "hwē",
"6": "hwēna",
"7": "hwes",
"8": "hwēmu",
"head": "hwat"
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"pos": "pron",
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"what"
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},
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],
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}
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"2": "gem-pro",
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"2": "gmw-pro",
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"name": "inh"
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"name": "cog"
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"name": "cog"
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"name": "cog"
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"name": "cog"
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"1": "got",
"2": "𐍈𐌰"
},
"expansion": "Gothic 𐍈𐌰 (ƕa)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
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"expansion": "hwat",
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"lang_code": "osx",
"pos": "intj",
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{
"glosses": [
"lo!, what!, indeed!"
],
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"lo"
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"what"
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"indeed"
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"text": "Old English: hwæt, huæt, huæd, huædd, huætd, huædt, hwet, wæt, whæt, hwat\nMiddle English: what, whad, whote, watte, wath, wad, qhat; whæt, whæht, waht, waet, wæht, weht, hweat\nEnglish: what\nScots: what, whate, whit, whut, wha', quhat, quat, fat, faht, phat, fit, fut, fout, at\nYola: faade, fhaade, faad, fade, f'ad, fadere"
},
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},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
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"2": "wät"
},
"expansion": "Saterland Frisian: wät",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Saterland Frisian: wät"
},
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{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "wat"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian: wat",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
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}
],
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},
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},
"expansion": "Low German: wat",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
{
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{
"args": {
"1": "odt",
"2": "wat"
},
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"name": "desctree"
}
],
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},
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"Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic"
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}
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"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
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"Middle English pronouns"
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"Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic"
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"name": "cog"
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"name": "cog"
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"name": "cog"
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{
"args": {
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},
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"name": "cog"
}
],
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"forms": [
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "osx-decl-pronint",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
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},
{
"form": "hwat",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"impersonal",
"nominative"
]
},
{
"form": "hwē",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"personal"
]
},
{
"form": "hwat",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"impersonal"
]
},
{
"form": "hwēna",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"personal"
]
},
{
"form": "hwes",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"impersonal"
]
},
{
"form": "hwes",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"personal"
]
},
{
"form": "hwēmu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"impersonal"
]
},
{
"form": "hwēmu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"personal"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "osx",
"2": "pronoun",
"cat2": "interrogative pronouns",
"g": "n"
},
"expansion": "hwat n",
"name": "head"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "hwat",
"2": "hwat",
"3": "hwes",
"4": "hwēmu",
"5": "hwē",
"6": "hwēna",
"7": "hwes",
"8": "hwēmu",
"head": "hwat"
},
"name": "osx-decl-pronint"
}
],
"lang": "Old Saxon",
"lang_code": "osx",
"pos": "pron",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"what"
],
"links": [
[
"what",
"what"
]
],
"tags": [
"neuter"
]
}
],
"word": "hwat"
}
{
"categories": [
"Old Saxon entries with incorrect language header",
"Old Saxon interjections",
"Old Saxon interrogative pronouns",
"Old Saxon lemmas",
"Old Saxon pronouns",
"Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Old Saxon terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Old Saxon terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic"
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "wat"
},
"expansion": "Low German: wat",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Low German: wat"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "osx",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "ine-pro",
"inh": "1"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "dercat"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "osx",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*hwat"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *hwat",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "hwæt"
},
"expansion": "Old English hwæt",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ofs",
"2": "hwet"
},
"expansion": "Old Frisian hwet",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "goh",
"2": "hwaz"
},
"expansion": "Old High German hwaz",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "hvat"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse hvat",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "got",
"2": "𐍈𐌰"
},
"expansion": "Gothic 𐍈𐌰 (ƕa)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *hwat. Compare Old English hwæt, Old Frisian hwet, Old High German hwaz, Old Norse hvat, Gothic 𐍈𐌰 (ƕa).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "osx",
"2": "interjection"
},
"expansion": "hwat",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Old Saxon",
"lang_code": "osx",
"pos": "intj",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"lo!, what!, indeed!"
],
"links": [
[
"lo",
"lo"
],
[
"what",
"what"
],
[
"indeed",
"indeed"
]
]
}
],
"word": "hwat"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gmw-pro",
"2": "*hwat"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic: *hwat\nOld English: hwæt, huæt, huæd, huædd, huætd, huædt, hwet, wæt, whæt, hwat\nMiddle English: what, whad, whote, watte, wath, wad, qhat; whæt, whæht, waht, waet, wæht, weht, hweat\nEnglish: what\nScots: what, whate, whit, whut, wha', quhat, quat, fat, faht, phat, fit, fut, fout, at\nYola: faade, fhaade, faad, fade, f'ad, fadere\nOld Frisian: hwet\nSaterland Frisian: wät\nWest Frisian: wat\nOld Saxon: hwat\nMiddle Low German: wat\nLow German: wat\nOld Dutch: wat\nMiddle Dutch: wat\nAfrikaans: wat\nDutch: wat\nLimburgish: waat\nOld High German: waz, whaz, hwaz, hwat\nMiddle High German: waz, wat\nAlemannic German: waas, waa; was, wa\nCentral Franconian: wat\nCimbrian: bas, baz\nHunsrik: was\nGerman: was\nLuxembourgish: wat\nYiddish: וואָס (vos)",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Proto-West Germanic: *hwat\nOld English: hwæt, huæt, huæd, huædd, huætd, huædt, hwet, wæt, whæt, hwat\nMiddle English: what, whad, whote, watte, wath, wad, qhat; whæt, whæht, waht, waet, wæht, weht, hweat\nEnglish: what\nScots: what, whate, whit, whut, wha', quhat, quat, fat, faht, phat, fit, fut, fout, at\nYola: faade, fhaade, faad, fade, f'ad, fadere\nOld Frisian: hwet\nSaterland Frisian: wät\nWest Frisian: wat\nOld Saxon: hwat\nMiddle Low German: wat\nLow German: wat\nOld Dutch: wat\nMiddle Dutch: wat\nAfrikaans: wat\nDutch: wat\nLimburgish: waat\nOld High German: waz, whaz, hwaz, hwat\nMiddle High German: waz, wat\nAlemannic German: waas, waa; was, wa\nCentral Franconian: wat\nCimbrian: bas, baz\nHunsrik: was\nGerman: was\nLuxembourgish: wat\nYiddish: וואָס (vos)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "hvat"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse: hvat\nIcelandic: hvað\nFaroese: hvat\nNorwegian Nynorsk: kva, kvat; (dialectal) k(v)att, kåt, ka, ke, ko, kø, hot, høt, hø, ho\nJamtish: hut, hvuð\nOld Swedish: hvat, hvadh\nSwedish: vad, hvad (pre-1906 spelling)\nOld Danish: hwat\nDanish: hvad\nNorwegian Bokmål: hva",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Old Norse: hvat\nIcelandic: hvað\nFaroese: hvat\nNorwegian Nynorsk: kva, kvat; (dialectal) k(v)att, kåt, ka, ke, ko, kø, hot, høt, hø, ho\nJamtish: hut, hvuð\nOld Swedish: hvat, hvadh\nSwedish: vad, hvad (pre-1906 spelling)\nOld Danish: hwat\nDanish: hvad\nNorwegian Bokmål: hva"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gem-pro",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*kʷód",
"4": "",
"5": "what"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *kʷód (“what”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ine-pro",
"2": "*kʷod"
},
"expansion": "*kʷod",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ine-pro",
"2": "*kʷós",
"3": "",
"4": "who"
},
"expansion": "*kʷós (“who”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ine-pro",
"2": "*kʷós"
},
"expansion": "*kʷós",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ine-pro",
"2": "*kʷis"
},
"expansion": "*kʷis",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Indo-European *kʷód (“what”), *kʷod, neuter form of *kʷós (“who”), *kʷós, *kʷis.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gem-pro",
"2": "pronoun form"
},
"expansion": "*hwat",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Proto-Germanic",
"lang_code": "gem-pro",
"original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hwat",
"pos": "pron",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Proto-Germanic entries with incorrect language header",
"Proto-Germanic interrogative pronouns",
"Proto-Germanic non-lemma forms",
"Proto-Germanic pronoun forms",
"Proto-Germanic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Proto-Germanic terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "hwaz"
}
],
"glosses": [
"nominative/accusative singular neuter of *hwaz"
],
"links": [
[
"*hwaz",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hwaz"
]
],
"tags": [
"accusative",
"form-of",
"neuter",
"nominative",
"reconstruction",
"singular"
]
}
],
"word": "hwat"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "hwæt"
},
"expansion": "Old English: hwæt, huæt, huæd, huædd, huætd, huædt, hwet, wæt, whæt, hwat\nMiddle English: what, whad, whote, watte, wath, wad, qhat; whæt, whæht, waht, waet, wæht, weht, hweat\nEnglish: what\nScots: what, whate, whit, whut, wha', quhat, quat, fat, faht, phat, fit, fut, fout, at\nYola: faade, fhaade, faad, fade, f'ad, fadere",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Old English: hwæt, huæt, huæd, huædd, huætd, huædt, hwet, wæt, whæt, hwat\nMiddle English: what, whad, whote, watte, wath, wad, qhat; whæt, whæht, waht, waet, wæht, weht, hweat\nEnglish: what\nScots: what, whate, whit, whut, wha', quhat, quat, fat, faht, phat, fit, fut, fout, at\nYola: faade, fhaade, faad, fade, f'ad, fadere"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ofs",
"2": "hwet"
},
"expansion": "Old Frisian: hwet",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Frisian: hwet"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "stq",
"2": "wät"
},
"expansion": "Saterland Frisian: wät",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Saterland Frisian: wät"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "wat"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian: wat",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "West Frisian: wat"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "osx",
"2": "hwat"
},
"expansion": "Old Saxon: hwat",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Saxon: hwat"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "wat"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German: wat",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Middle Low German: wat"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "wat"
},
"expansion": "Low German: wat",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Low German: wat"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "odt",
"2": "wat"
},
"expansion": "Old Dutch: wat\nMiddle Dutch: wat\nAfrikaans: wat\nDutch: wat\nLimburgish: waat",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Old Dutch: wat\nMiddle Dutch: wat\nAfrikaans: wat\nDutch: wat\nLimburgish: waat"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "goh",
"2": "waz"
},
"expansion": "Old High German: waz, whaz, hwaz, hwat\nMiddle High German: waz, wat\nAlemannic German: waas, waa; was, wa\nCentral Franconian: wat\nCimbrian: bas, baz\nHunsrik: was\nGerman: was\nLuxembourgish: wat\nYiddish: וואָס (vos)",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Old High German: waz, whaz, hwaz, hwat\nMiddle High German: waz, wat\nAlemannic German: waas, waa; was, wa\nCentral Franconian: wat\nCimbrian: bas, baz\nHunsrik: was\nGerman: was\nLuxembourgish: wat\nYiddish: וואָס (vos)"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "gmw-pro",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*hwat"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *hwat",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Germanic *hwat.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gmw-pro",
"2": "pronoun"
},
"expansion": "*hwat",
"name": "head"
}
],
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"lang_code": "gmw-pro",
"original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hwat",
"pos": "pron",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Proto-West Germanic entries with incorrect language header",
"Proto-West Germanic lemmas",
"Proto-West Germanic pronouns",
"Proto-West Germanic terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Proto-West Germanic terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Undetermined quotations with omitted translation",
"Undetermined terms with quotations"
],
"glosses": [
"what (interrogative)"
],
"links": [
[
"what",
"what"
]
],
"tags": [
"reconstruction"
]
}
],
"word": "hwat"
}
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