whatten

发音

/wɒtən/
/wɑtən/

别名

whaten

释义与例句

pron.
  1. 1.

    What.

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词源

Originally a contraction of what kind (of) (the DSL traces the Scots cognate back to Middle English whatkin, whatkyn, but the MED's only example is of the two-word collocation what kyn), later used in place of bare what.

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