who
pronunciation
How to pronounce who in British English:
UK [huː]
How to pronounce who in American English:
US [huː]
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- Noun:
- a United Nations agency to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services
Word Origin
- who
- who: [OE] Who goes right back to Indo-European *qwos, *qwes (source also of Russian kto ‘who’), whose neuter form *qwod gave English what. Its prehistoric Germanic descendant was *khwaz, *khwez, which has evolved into German wer, Dutch wie, Danish hvo, and English who. Whom comes from the Old English dative form hwǣm.
- who (pron.)
- Old English hwa "who," sometimes "what; anyone, someone; each; whosoever," from Proto-Germanic *hwas (cognates: Old Saxon hwe, Danish hvo, Swedish vem, Old Frisian hwa, Dutch wie, Old High German hwer, German wer, Gothic hvo (fem.) "who"), from PIE *kwo-, stem of relative and interrogative pronouns (cognates: Sanskrit kah "who, which;" Avestan ko, Hittite kuish "who;" Latin quis/quid "in what respect, to what extent; how, why," qua "where, which way," qui/quae/quod "who, which;" Lithuanian kas "who;" Old Church Slavonic kuto, Russian kto "who;" Old Irish ce, Welsh pwy "who").
Example
- 1. Forgive those who have wronged you .
- 2. I know who james is .
- 3. Who officials didn 't respond to requests for comment .
- 4. Who estimates 3.5 million children die every year of malnutrition .
- 5. Then , who on earth were doing this ?