Proto-Germanic

*hwaz

‘what’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Germanic *hwaz.

7 English words in this record descend from Proto-Germanic *hwaz, most familiar first.

• who ← hwā ← *hwaʀ
• which ← hwelċ ← *hwilīkaz
• where ← wher ← hwǣr ← *hwār ← *hwar
• whether ← hweþer ← *hwaþar ← *hwaþeraz
• whose ← whos ← hwæs ← *hwes
• whom ← hwām ← *hwammai
• elsewhere ← elswher ← elles hwǣr ← hwerġen ← *hwargin

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *hwaz