H.W.A.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /xwɑː/, [ʍɑː]
• 韻: -ɑː

代名詞

hwā

1. who (interrogative)
   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, John 5:13

     Sē þe þǣr ġehǣled wæs nysse hwā hit wæs: sē Hǣlend sōðlīċe bēag fram þǣre ġaderunge.

     The one that was healed didn't know who it was: Jesus had truly withdrawn from the crowd.

2. anyone
3. someone

使用する際の注意点

• In the first sense, hwā refers to a person who is not yet known: Hwā forstæl mīnne fodan? (“Who stole my food?”). When enquiring further about a known person's identity, hwæt is used: Hwæt eart þū? (“Who are you?”, literally “What art thou?”).
• Unlike the broader relative pronoun use of Modern English who, hwā typically only forms relative clauses that function as indirect questions. For example, the relative clause introduced by hwā in the statement Hēo nāt hwā þā twā bēċ write (“She doesn't know who wrote the two books”) implies the direct question hwā write þā twā bēċ? (“who wrote the two books?”). For relative clauses that are not indirect questions, the usual strategies of using sē and/or þe are overwhelmingly preferred: Hē is sē þe wrāt þā twā bēċ (“He is the one who wrote the two books”). However, this is only a generalisation.

語形変化

派生した語

• Middle English: who, ȝwo, ho, hoo, huo, quo, qwo, qwho, whoo, wo, woo, qua, wha (northern), hwa, hwo, hwoa (Early Middle English)
  • English: who
  • Geordie: whe
  • Scots: wha
  • Yola: fho, fo, vo