where (at what place) · where (at or in which place or situation) · when, that (on which; at which time)
eş: als, der, welcher, irgendwo
köken: With a widespread dialectal shift from -ā- to -ō-, from Middle High German wā, wār, from Old High German wār, hwār, from Proto-West Germanic *hwār, from Proto-Germanic *hwēr, *hwar. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷís, whence also wer. Cognate with English where.
Wo bist du?
Ich kenne einen Laden, wo solche Sachen verkauft werden.
where (interrogative) · where (relative pronoun) · at that time; when
eş: oùsque, ousque
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *kʷuðei Old Latin cubī Latin ubi Old French ou Middle French où French où Inherited from Middle French où, from Old French ou, from Latin ubi (“where”). The grave accent was added in Middle French to differentiate from ou (“or”).
aile: Dieu sait où, d’où, je ne sais où, ne savoir où donner de la tête, n'importe où, n’avoir pas où reposer sa tête, on ne sait où, où je pense, où que, où que ce soit
köken: From de (“from”) + Old Spanish onde (“whence, from where”), from Latin unde. Replaced Old Spanish o (“where”), from Latin ubi, although the latter survives, in a marginal way, in the form do, which is also prefixed with de.
köken: From Latin dē ubi (“from where, whence”), or from a strengthening of the older form ove with a prothetic d-. Compare Piedmontese doa, French d'où.
where; wherever (in or at what place; in or at a/any/the place that, in what situation) · where (the place in or at which) · where (in a situation, position, case, timeframe, etc.)
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese onde, from Latin unde (“whence”). Compare Spanish donde.
aile: aonde, de onde em onde, donde, onde quer que
where? in what place?, in which place? · where or in a place where · when
köken: From Old Latin cubī with iambic shortening, from Proto-Italic *kʷuðei or *kʷuβei, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷudʰei or *kʷobʰí (when compared with Hittite ku-wa-pi), from pronominal root *kʷu- + *-dʰi (locative suffix). Compare Ancient Greek πόθι (póthi). See also the same meanings in quō. The unexpected loss of c may be explained as a re-analysis of the negative nēcubi, where the c was…
aile: alicubī̆, est ubī̆, nēcubī̆, nuncubī̆, sīcubī̆, ubi ubī̆, ubiubī̆, ubī̆cumque, ubī̆nam, ubīque
where? in what place? · where? where to? to what place? whither? · indicates an indeterminate or unknown place; where, wherever, somewhere
köken: From Proto-Baltic *kur, from the same Proto-Indo-European stem *kʷu-, *kʷo- as the interrogative pronoun kas (q.v.). Cognates include Lithuanian kur̃, Old Church Slavonic къде (kŭde) (cf. Russian где (gde)), Sanskrit कुह (kúha).
köken: From Old English hwǣr (“where”, literally “at what place”), from Proto-Germanic *hwar (“where”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- (interrogative pronoun).