Hvaða
Old Norse Dictionary - hvaðaMeaning of Old Norse word "hvaða" in English.
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- hvaða
- pron., indecl. throughout all cases and genders [see hverr], what, which, but only as an adjective, never as a subst. pronoun, e. g. hvaða menn, hvaða konur, hvaða skip? whereas hverr (q. v.) is used as a substantive; hvaða is a mod. form from the old hvat or hvatta (q. v.), and is hardly found in old vellums, except with a dat.; hvaða snúð (dat.), Sks. 266; hvaða burði, Fms. viii. 8; whereas in mod. speech hvaða as an adj. pron. has almost displaced the old hverr, which is at present only used in the substantive sense.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚼᚢᛅᚦᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- adj.
- adjective.
- dat.
- dative.
- decl.
- declined.
- e. g.
- exempli gratia.
- indecl.
- indeclinable.
- l.
- line.
- mod.
- modern.
- n.
- neuter.
- pron.
- pronoun.
- q. v.
- quod vide.
- subst.
- substantive.
- v.
- vide.
Works & Authors cited:
- Fms.
- Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)
- Sks.
- Konungs Skugg-sjá. (H. II.)