Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗pron
What place.
conj
While on the contrary; although; whereas. · That.
adv
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryIn, at or to what place. · In what situation. · In, at or to the place (that) or a place (that). · In, at or to any place (that); wherever; anywhere.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- Proto-Indo-European *kʷís Proto-Germanic *hwaz Proto-Indo-European *-r Proto-Germanic *-r Proto-Germanic *hwar Proto-West Germanic *hwār Old English hwǣr Middle English wher English where From Middle English wher, from Old English hwǣr (“where”, literally “at what place”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwār, from Proto-Germanic *hwar (“where”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- (interrogative pronoun).
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