hvar
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse hvar, from Proto-Germanic *hwar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰvɛaːɹ/
- Rhymes: -ɛaːɹ
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)
- 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).
Descendants
References
- “hvar”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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.
Declension
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.
Descendants
- Swedish: var