whatten

English

Etymology

Originally a contraction of what kind (of) (the DSL traces the Scots cognate back to Middle English whatkin, whatkyn, but the MED's only example is of the two-word collocation what kyn),[1][2] later used in place of bare what.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wɒtən/, /wɑtən/

Pronoun

whatten

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland, dialect, archaic) What.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:whatten.

References

  1. ^ “whatten”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
  2. ^ “what-kin, pronoun.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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