wät

See also: wat, WAT, Wat, wát, Wät, and wät-

Saterland Frisian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /vɛt/
  • Hyphenation: wät
  • Rhymes: -ɛt

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian hwet, from Proto-West Germanic *hwat. Cognates include West Frisian wat and German was.

Pronoun

wät

  1. what?
    Wät is dut? ― What is that?
  2. what
    Iek weet wät dut is. ― I know what that is.
    • 2000, Marron C. Fort, transl., Dät Näie Tästamänt un do Psoolme in ju aasterlauwerfräiske Uurtoal fon dät Seelterlound, Fräislound, Butjoarlound, Aastfräislound un do Groninger Umelounde [The New Testament and the Psalms in the East Frisian language, native to Saterland, Friesland, Butjadingen, East Frisia and the Ommelanden of Groningen], →ISBN, Dät Evangelium ätter Matthäus 1:22:
      Dut aal is geskäin, dät dät uutkume skuul, wät die Here truch dän Profeet kweden häd;
      This all has happened, so that it would come true, what the Lord through the profet has said.
  3. something
    Iek häbe wät fóar die. ― I have something for you.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

wät

  1. imperative singular of wätje

References
  • Marron C. Fort (2015) “wät”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN
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