hwa

Clipping of English Hwané.

hwa

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Wané.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Wané terms

hwa

1. (Early Middle English) alternative form of who (“who”, nominative)

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

hwa

1. to die

From Proto-West Germanic *hwaʀ.

• IPA^(key): /xwɑː/, [ʍɑː]

hwā

1. who (interrogative)
   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, John 5:13

     Sē þe þǣr ġehǣled wæs nysse hwā hit wæs: sē Hǣlend sōðlīċe bēag fram þǣre ġaderunge.

     The one that was healed didn't know who it was: Jesus had truly withdrawn from the crowd.

2. anyone
3. someone

• In the first sense, hwā refers to a person who is not yet known: Hwā forstæl mīnne fodan? (“Who stole my food?”). When enquiring further about a known person's identity, hwæt is used: Hwæt eart þū? (“Who are you?”, literally “What art thou?”).
• Unlike the broader relative pronoun use of Modern English who, hwā typically only forms relative clauses that function as indirect questions. For example, the relative clause introduced by hwā in the statement Hēo nāt hwā þā twā bēċ write (“She doesn't know who wrote the two books”) implies the direct question hwā write þā twā bēċ? (“who wrote the two books?”). For relative clauses that are not indirect questions, the usual strategies of using sē and/or þe are overwhelmingly preferred: Hē is sē þe wrāt þā twā bēċ (“He is the one who wrote the two books”). However, this is only a generalisation.

• Middle English: who, ȝwo, ho, hoo, huo, quo, qwo, qwho, whoo, wo, woo, qua, wha, hwa, hwo, hwoa
  • English: who
  • Geordie English: whe
  • Scots: wha
  • Yola: fho, fo, vo

• IPA^(key): /ˈhwaː/
• (Late Old Frisian) IPA^(key): /ˈwaː/

From Proto-West Germanic *hwaʀ. Cognates include Old English hwā and Old Saxon hwē.

hwā

2. (interrogative) who?
3. (relative) who, that

   Synonyms: thī, thiu

4. (indefinite) whoever, anyone

   Synonyms: hwāsā, ēnich

• West Frisian: wa

From Proto-West Germanic *hą̄han. Cognates include Old English hōn and Old Saxon hāhan.

• huā

hwā

2. (transitive) to hang

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic هوى (hawa).

hwa (Tifinagh spelling ⵀⵡⴰ)

1. (intransitive) to go down, to come down, to descend

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Verbal noun: hekkʷu
• Causative: sehwa (“to lower”)
  • Verbal noun: asehwa