quoi
Bourguignon
Alternative forms
- quei (Morvan)
Etymology
From Latin quid; ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid, compare *kʷis. Cognate to French quoi.
Pronoun
quoi
Usage notes
In some parts of Bourgogne, quoi is often confounded with quei, originally meaning which?. For example, it is not uncommon to hear aivoi de quei instead of aivoi de quoi ('to have enough').
Further reading
- “quoi” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
French
Alternative forms
- quoy (obsolete)
Etymology
From Latin quid; ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid, compare *kʷis. Cognate to English what, which differs due to changing under Grimm’s law.
Pronoun
quoi
Adverb
quoi
Further reading
- “quoi” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Adjective
quoi
Pronoun
quoi
References
- quoi in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish cía, from Proto-Celtic *kʷēs, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis.
Middle French
Etymology 1
Old French, from Latin quietus.
Adjective
quoi m (feminine singular quoie, masculine plural quois, feminine plural quoies)
References
- coi on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) (in French)
Etymology 2
See quoy.
Old French
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