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