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Where does “hwo” come from?
hwo (Old Saxon) comes from Proto-Germanic hwō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷís.
hwo
(Old Saxon): how
Definitions
how
Ancestry of “hwo”, 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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