who (what person or people) · what, which (one) (see usage notes) · whoever, he who, someone who, the person who, anyone who (whatever person or persons)
köken: From Middle High German wër, from Old High German wër, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaʀ. Related to wo.
aile: irgendwer, Wemfall, Wenfall, wer da, Werdaruf, Werfall
Wer ist sie? — O kim?
Wer hat das gesagt?
Wer eine Frage hat, kann sich jetzt melden.
Wer im Glashaus sitzt, soll nicht mit Steinen werfen.
who, whom · who, which, that · whom (after a preposition)
köken: Inherited from Middle French qui, from Old French qui, from Latin quī.
aile: à qui le dis-tu, à qui le dites-vous, à qui mieux mieux, ce qui, n'importe qui, qu'est-ce qui, qui de droit, qui plus est, qui que ce puisse être, qui que ce pût être
that (connecting noun clause) · that (introducing the result of the main clause) · than (used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison)
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese que, from Latin quid (“what”) (usurping as well the roles of Latin quod), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid, compare *kʷís. Cognate with English who.
aile: é que, por causa que, por que, porque, que nem, que só, que tal, que que tem?
Pensei que você tivesse dito que ela estava só mandando você escrever!
köken: First attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean 누〮 (Yale: nwú). From Old Korean 誰支 (*NWUk). Found in 17th-century sources as 누고 (Yale: nukwo).
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köken: From Old Swedish som or sum, in Runic inscriptions also sim, same as Icelandic sem, from Old Norse sem. Also related to the prefix sam- (“co-, common, together”) and suffix -sam (“-some, -like”). Still in the Poetic Edda, the Icelandic sem is only used as a comparative particle, e.g. Hávamál 23 allt er víl sem var (And his woe is just as it was). With time it has displaced other relative…
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- Proto-Indo-European *kʷós Proto-Balto-Slavic *kas Proto-Indo-European *só Proto-Balto-Slavic *tas Proto-Slavic *tъ Proto-Slavic *to Proto-Slavic *kъto Old Polish kto Polish kto Inherited from Old Polish kto.
köken: Inherited from Sauraseni Apabhramsa कवन (kavana), from Sanskrit कः पुनर् (kaḥ punar, “who”). Compare Gujarati કોણ (koṇ), Marathi कोण (koṇ), Bengali কোন (kōn). See किस (kis) for more.
who, which, that (referring to the previous word or phrase; see usage notes)
köken: From Proto-Finnic *joka (compare Karelian joka, Votic jõka), from Proto-Finno-Permic *jo (compare Northern Sami juohkẹ, juogọ, Erzya ю- (ju-) in юза-тоза (juza-toza, “back and forth”), Eastern Mari южо (južo, “some”), Western Mari юж (juž, “some”)). The nominative and genitive singular forms, which would have otherwise been monosyllabic, have been extended with -ka (as with kuka and mikä).
Jos putoaa jäihin, kannattaa palata samaa reittiä, jota pitkin oli tullutkin.
Hän säveltää harrastuksenaan musiikkia, jossa hän onkin taitava.
aile: aki időt nyer, életet nyer, aki kapja, marja, aki kíváncsi, hamar megöregszik, aki másnak vermet ás, maga esik bele, aki mer, az nyer, aki sokat markol, keveset fog, aki szelet vet, vihart arat
köken: Originally, the dative of archaic hvo, from Old Danish hwa, hwo, oblique hwem, genitive hwes. In Old West Norse, the nominative and accusative of this pronoun has been replaced by another pronoun, hverr, but the dative and genitive are still extant: hveim, hves. From Proto-Germanic *hwaz (“who”), cognate with English who, German wer, Gothic 𐍈𐌰𐍃 (ƕas). The pronoun goes back to Proto-Indo-European…
Hvem er du?
Hun ved godt, hvis cykel det er
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