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