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hwelc

Pronunciation: /xwelt͡ʃ/

“hwelc” is an Old English word. Its 8 meanings in English:

determiner

  1. which
  2. what
  3. what kind of, what sort of
  4. some, any

pronoun

  1. which one
  2. anyone, anything; someone, something
  3. who

interjection

  1. what (used in exclamations)

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hwilīkaz ~ *hwalīkaz (“what kind of”), a compound of *hwaz and *-līkaz.

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