Word Origin Summary

*kʷeh₁d- is attested in Proto-Indo-European. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• what

  Yola · inherited from

• triquetrous

  English · derived from

• whet

  English · derived from

• hwettan

  English · derived from

• what

  Scots · inherited from

• triquetrum

  English · derived from

• triquetrus

  Latin · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root