Where does “Wäa” come from?

Wäa (Plautdietsch) comes from Middle Low German we, from Old Saxon hwē, from Proto-West Germanic hwaʀ, from Proto-Germanic hwaz, from Proto-Indo-European kʷos, from Proto-Indo-European kʷ- — The primary interrogative root.

Wäa (Plautdietsch): who

Definitions

  1. who

Ancestry of “Wäa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germanwewho; Alternative form of wî
2Old Saxonhwēwho
3Proto-West Germanichwaʀwho
4Proto-Germanichwazwho, what; whose; whom
5Proto-Indo-EuropeankʷosSee *kʷis
6Proto-Indo-Europeankʷ-The primary interrogative root

Words derived from “Wäa”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European kʷ- →