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Where does “wære” come from?

wære (Middle High German) comes from Proto-West Germanic *wāʀīn.

Ancestry of “wære”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanic*wāʀīn—

Words derived from “wære”

  • Sinneswahrnehmung
  • Wahrnehmung
  • wahrnehmen
  • wahr
Every word from Proto-West Germanic *wāʀīn →