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Proto-Germanic[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
*was
- first/third-person singular past active indicative of *wesaną
Descendants[edit]
- Old English: wæs, wes; was, wæss, uæs, waes; ᚹᚫᛋ (wæs)
- Old Frisian: was
- Old Saxon: was
- Middle Low German: was
- Dutch Low Saxon: was
- German Low German: was
- Plautdietsch: was
- Old Dutch: was
- Proto-Norse: ᚹᚨᛊ (was)
- Old Norse: vas (early), var (-s replaced with -r by analogy to other inflections) (see there for further descendants)
- Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐍃 (was)