hvar

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Faroese

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Etymology

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From Old Norse hvar, from Proto-Germanic *hwar.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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hvar (not comparable)

  1. where
    Hvar fert tú?Where are you going?

Further reading

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"hvar" at Sprotin.fo

Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse hvar, from Proto-Germanic *hwar.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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hvar (not comparable)

  1. where (of location)
    Hvar áttu heima?Where do you live?
    Hvar er hann niðurkominn?What’s become of him?
    Hvar í ósköpunum varstu, Óskar?Where in heaven’s name were you, Óskar?

Derived terms

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *hwar (where), formed with a locative suffix from the stem of *hwaz (who). Cognate with Old English hwær, Old Frisian hwēr, Old Saxon hwar, Old Dutch war, wara, Old High German war, Gothic 𐍈𐌰𐍂 (ƕar).

Adverb

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hvar (not comparable)

  1. where

Descendants

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  • Icelandic: hvar
  • Faroese: hvar
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kvar, kor
    • Russenorsk: kor
  • Old Swedish: hvar, hwor
    • Swedish: var, (pre-1906 spelling) hvar, (dialectal) hôr
  • Danish: hvor
    • Norwegian Bokmål: hvor
  • Gutnish: var

References

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  • hvar”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Swedish

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse hverr (from Proto-Germanic *hwarjaz) and *hver (from Proto-Germanic *hwaz), which were conflated in (late) Old Norse. Most of the inflected forms of *hwaz have since become obsolete, and what remains in form is essentially the descendant of *hwarjaz, but with an extra form for the neuter nominative and accusative singular: hvat from Old Norse hvat.

Pronoun

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hvar (feminine hvar, neuter hvart)

  1. who, which (of many)
  2. each, every

Declension

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Descendants

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Etymology 2

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From Old Norse hvar, from Proto-Germanic *hwar.

Adverb

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hvar

  1. where

Descendants

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Swedish

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Adverb

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hvar

  1. Archaic spelling of var.

Conjunction

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hvar

  1. Archaic spelling of var.

Anagrams

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