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Where does “wuo” come from?
wuo (Old Dutch) comes from Proto-Germanic hwō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷís.
Ancestry of “wuo”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Proto-Germanic
hwō
how, with what, by what means; instrumental of...
2
Proto-Indo-European
*kʷís
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Words derived from “wuo”
woe
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