Where does “etewaʒ” come from?
etewaʒ (Middle High German) comes from Old High German eddeshwaz, from Old High German hwaz, from Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Indo-European kʷód, from Proto-Indo-European kʷós — who.
Ancestry of “etewaʒ”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old High German | eddeshwaz | — |
| 2 | Old High German | hwaz | — |
| 3 | Germanic | *hwat | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷód | what |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷós | who |