hvar

See also: Hvar

Faroese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰvɛaːɹ/

  Rhymes: -ɛaːɹ

Adverb

hvar (not comparable)

1. where

   Hvar fert tú? ― Where are you going?

Further reading

"hvar" at Sprotin.fo

Icelandic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰvaːr/
• IPA^(key): /xʷaːr/

  Rhymes: -aːr

Adverb

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

• finna hvar skórinn kreppir (“to feel where the shoe pinches”)
• hér og hvar (“here and there”)
• sýna hvar Davíð keypti ölið
• víðast hvar (“almost everywhere”)

Old Norse

Etymology

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

hvar (not comparable)

1. where

Descendants

• 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

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “hvar”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Old Swedish

Etymology 1

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

hvar (feminine hvar, neuter hvart)

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

Declension

Declension of hvar

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	hvar	hvar	hvart
accusative	hvarn	hvaria	hvart
dative	hvarium	hvari	hvariu
genitive	hvars	hvarar	hvars
plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	hvarir	hvariar	hvar
accusative	hvaria	hvariar	hvar
dative	hvarium	hvarium	hvarium
genitive	hvara	hvara	hvara

Descendants

• Swedish: var

Etymology 2

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

Adverb

hvar

1. where

Descendants

• Swedish: var

Swedish

Adverb

hvar

1. Archaic spelling of var.

Conjunction

hvar

1. Archaic spelling of var.

Anagrams

• harv