Reconstruction:Old Norse/hver

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Merged with 🇨🇬 from.

Pronoun

 * 1) who, what

Declension
An archaic and defective pronoun conflated with (< ) in Old West Norse. The masculine nominative should be, i.e. , in Old West Norse, with >   due to ʀ-mutation, but it is uncertainly attested due to the prevalence of abbreviations for pronouns in manuscripts. This form, nearly identical to and likely completely identical when unstressed, may account for the conflation of these two originally distinct words seen in Old West Norse.

The Old East Norse form was (attested on the  ), without the mutation. This pronoun has survived better in East Norse descendants and been kept distinct from. No feminine forms are attested and they probably did not exist in the Old Norse period.

Descendants
In western dialects the descendants of nominative masculine merged with :

In the others they stayed separate: