wä

wä

1. to go
2. to walk

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

From northern Middle High German wie, wē. The form wä instead of expected *wee after the original dative and accusative forms (Middle High German weme, wene).

• IPA^(key): /ʋɛː/

wä (interrogative)

1. (Ripuarian) who, whom

   Wä es dat? ― Who’s that?

   Wäm jiss de dat? ― To whom do you give that?

   Wä(m) sühs de? ― Whom do you see?

• In most dialects, the form wä is used for nominative and accusative, while the dative is wäm.
• In westernmost Ripuarian, wä is nominative, while wöm or wäm is object case.

• vä, ve

From Old Norse við.

• IPA^(key): [ʋɛ], [ʋe̞]

wä

1. (with accusative, with dative) with

   Falkjä gjär sä fult wä ȯuwun sä du kȧn int wara lawi dȯm.

   The people are so full of envy that you cannot be among them.

2. (with accusative, with dative) beside, near

   Lägg ne ä vä spisom!

   Put it down by the stove!

• lawi (“next to, in company with”)
• vehall (“support”)