Where does “וווּ” come from?

וווּ (Yiddish) comes from Old High German hwār, from Proto-Germanic hwar, from Proto-Germanic hwēr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷís.

וווּ (Yiddish): where

Definitions

  1. where

Ancestry of “וווּ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old High Germanhwārwhere
2Proto-Germanichwarwhere, in what place
3Proto-Germanichwēr—
4Proto-Indo-European*kʷís—

Words derived from “וווּ”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *kʷís →Every word from Proto-Germanic hwēr →Every word from Proto-Germanic hwar →