wä

See also: Appendix:Variations of "wa" and wae

Äiwoo

Verb

wä

1. to go
2. to walk

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Central Franconian

Etymology

From northern Middle High German wie, wē. The form wä instead of expected *wee after the original dative and accusative forms (Middle High German weme, wene).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋɛː/

Pronoun

wä (interrogative)

1. (Ripuarian) who, whom

   Wä es dat? ― Who’s that?

   Wäm jiss de dat? ― To whom do you give that?

   Wä(m) sühs de? ― Whom do you see?

Usage notes

• In most dialects, the form wä is used for nominative and accusative, while the dative is wäm.
• In westernmost Ripuarian, wä is nominative, while wöm or wäm is object case.