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kwo- Also kwi-. Stem of relative and interrogative pronouns. Derivatives include who, whether, either, quorum, quip, and quality.- who, whose, whom, from Old English hwā, hwæs, hwǣm, who, whose, whom, from Germanic personal pronouns *hwas, *hwasa, *hwam;
- what, from Old English hwæt, what, from Germanic pronoun *hwat;
- why, from Old English hwȳ, why, from Germanic adverb *hwī;
- which, from Old English hwilc, hwelc, which, from Germanic relative pronoun *hwa-līk‑ (*līk‑, body, form; see līk-);
- how, from Old English hū, how, from Germanic adverb *hwō;
- when, from Old English hwenne, hwanne, when;
- whence, from Old English hwanon, whence. Both (i) and (ii) from Germanic adverb *hwan‑.
- whither, from Old English hwider, whither, from Germanic adverb *hwithrē;
- where, from Old English hwǣr, where, from Germanic adverb *hwar‑. a-h all from Germanic *hwa‑, *hwi‑.
- whether; neither, from Old English hwæther, hwether, which of two, whether;
- either, from Old English ǣghwæther, ǣther, either, from Germanic phrase *aiwo gihwatharaz, "ever each of two" (*aiwo, *aiwi, ever, and *gi‑, from *ga‑, collective prefix; see aiw- and kom). Both a and b from Germanic *hwatharaz.
- qua, quibble, quorum, from Latin quī, who.
- hidalgo, quiddity, quidnunc, quip; kickshaw, from Latin quid, what, something.
- quasi, from Latin quasi, as if (< quam + sī, if; see swo-), from quam, as, than, how.
- quodlibet, from Latin quod, what.
- Suffixed form *kwo-ti.
- quote, quotidian, quotient; aliquot, from Latin quot, how many;
- further suffixed form *kwo-ty-o‑. posology, from Greek posos, how much.
- quondam, from Latin quom, when.
- cooncan, from Latin quem, whom.
- quantity, from Latin quantus, how great.
- quality; kickshaw, from Latin quālis, of what kind.
- cue2, from Latin quandō, when (from *kwām + -dō, to, til; see de-).
- neuter, from Latin uter, either of two, ultimately from *kwo-tero‑ (becoming -cuter in such compounds as necuter, neither, from which uter was abstracted out by false segmentation).
- ubiquity, from Latin ubi, where, ultimately from locative case *kwo-bhi (becoming -cubi in such compounds as alicubi, somewhere, from which ubi was abstracted out by false segmentation, perhaps under the influence of ibi, there).
- cheese3, from Old Persian *ciš-ciy, something ( < *kwid-kwid).
[Pokorny ku̯o‑ 644.] |
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