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English German Dutch Germanic Source Cognates Middle 59.Which

正面 59.which
英 [wɪtʃ]美 [wɪtʃ]

背面
释义:
pron. 哪/那一个;哪/那一些adj. 哪一个;哪一些
例句:
1. He lived on an invalidity pension which came as a weekly giro.他靠每周领取的作为病残养老金的直接转账救济支票过日子。

1. 同源词:an, one, only.2. an => on- + -e => one.3. an => on- + -ly => only.4. an 其实是 one 的古英语形式。
which 哪一件来自古英语hwi-lic,什么样的,hwi,什么,词源同what,lic,样子,物体,词源同like。引申词义哪一个,哪一件。
whichwhich: [OE] Etymologically, which means ‘what like, of what form or sort?’ The word was formed in the prehistoric Germanic period from the interrogative base *khwa-, *khwe- (source of English what, who, etc) and *līka- ‘body, form’ (source of English like and also incorporated into English each and such). Its Germanic relatives include German welch and Dutch welk ‘which’.=> likewhich (pron.)Old English hwilc (West Saxon, Anglian), hwælc (Northumbrian) "which," short for hwi-lic "of what form," from Proto-Germanic *hwa-lik- (cognates: Old Saxon hwilik, Old Norse hvelikr, Swedish vilken, Old Frisian hwelik, Middle Dutch wilk, Dutch welk, Old High German hwelich, German welch, Gothic hvileiks "which"), from *hwi- "who" (see who) + *likan "body, form" (cognates: Old English lic "body;" see like (adj.)). In Middle English used as a relative pronoun where Modern English would use who, as still in the Lord's Prayer. Old English also had parallel forms hwelc and hwylc, which disappeared 15c."

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