Wak
Hen Linge
Etymology
| From an invisible proto-language. |
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Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ak
Orthographic Form
oiakh
Pronoun
wak (subjective second person plural, singular the)
- you, you all (second person plural subjective pronoun)
Inflection
| Hen Linge Personal Pronouns | |||||||||||
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| Singular | Plural | ||||||||||
| 1st Person | 2nd Person | 3rd Person | 1st Person | 2nd Person | 3rd Person | ||||||
| Subjective | a | the | het | nina | wak | lan | |||||
| Objective/Possessive | me, 'me | ath, te, 'eth | it, 'et | en, 'en | ek, 'ek | lan, 'elan | |||||
| Negative | na | nete | net | nein | nök | nil | |||||
Creation and Usage Notes
| There's no evidence of a second person plural pronoun in Sapkowski's work, but it would be an odd omission to retain. Having it begin with [w] evoked the Indo-European [v] (pronounced [w] in Latin), and having a [k] as the clitic form would make it distinct from the other pronouns. By having the vowel [a] I could reinforce the oia [wa] spelling in the orthographic form of the pronoun, so I went with it.
-David J. Peterson 03:57, 6 August 2023 (PDT) |