wat in Middle Dutch

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{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "lang_code": "af",
      "word": "wat"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "word": "wat"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Limburgish",
      "lang_code": "li",
      "word": "waat"
    }
  ],
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    },
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      },
      "expansion": "Old Dutch wat",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Dutch wat",
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        },
        {
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        },
        {
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "what"
      ],
      "id": "en-wat-dum-pron-dJqywNBs",
      "links": [
        [
          "what",
          "what"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/wat/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wat"
}

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{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "lang_code": "af",
      "word": "wat"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "word": "wat"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Limburgish",
      "lang_code": "li",
      "word": "waat"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "dum",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "gem-pro",
        "inh": "2"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "dercat"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "dum",
        "2": "odt",
        "3": "wat"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Dutch wat",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Dutch wat",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "dum",
        "2": "pronoun",
        "cat2": "interrogative pronouns"
      },
      "expansion": "wat",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle Dutch",
  "lang_code": "dum",
  "pos": "pron",
  "senses": [
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        "Middle Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
        "Middle Dutch interrogative pronouns",
        "Middle Dutch lemmas",
        "Middle Dutch pronouns",
        "Middle Dutch terms derived from Old Dutch",
        "Middle Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
        "Middle Dutch terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
        "Middle Dutch terms inherited from Old Dutch",
        "Middle Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
        "Middle Dutch terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
        "Pages with 22 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "what"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "what",
          "what"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/wat/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wat"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle Dutch dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-03-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-03-03 using wiktextract (05c257f and 9d9a410). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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"wat" meaning in Middle Dutch

Pronoun