Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗That's enough: a command asking someone to stop adding something, especially an ingredient or portion of food or drink; used in, or as if in, literal response to ‘Say when’. · Expressing impatience.
At (or as soon as) that time that; at the (or any and every) time that; if. · During the time that; at the time of the action of the following clause or participle phrase. · At what time; at which time. · Since; given the fact that; considering that.
The time at which something happens.
At what time? At which time? Upon which occasion or circumstance? Used to introduce direct or indirect questions about time. · Used after a noun or noun phrase in isolation to express impatience with an anticipated future event. · At an earlier time and under different, usually less favorable, circumstances. · At which, on which, during which: often omitted or replaced with that.
What time; which time.
From Middle English when(ne), whan(ne), from Old English hwonne, from Proto-West Germanic *hwannē, from Proto-West Germanic *hwan, from Proto-Germanic *hwan (“at what time, when”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷís (interrogative base). Cognate with Scots whan (“when”), Dutch wanneer (“when”), wan (“when”) and wen (“when, if”), Low German wannehr (“when”), wann (“when”) and wenn (“if, when”), German wann (“when”) and wenn (“when, if”), Gothic 𐍈𐌰𐌽 (ƕan, “when, how”), Latin quandō (“when”). More at who. Interjection sense: a playful misunderstanding of "say when" (i.e. say something / speak up when you want me to stop) as "say [the word] when".
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*kʷ-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionwhenenm
- Inherited-form mentionhwonneang
- Inherited-form mention*hwannēgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*hwangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*hwangem-pro
- Derivation mention*kʷísine-pro
- Cognate mentionwhansco
- Cognate mentionwanneernl
- Cognate mentionwannehrnds
- Cognate mentionwannde
- Cognate mention𐍈𐌰𐌽got
- Cognate mentionquandōla
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