wo

• whoa

Variant of who.

wo

1. A falconer's call to a hawk.
2. A call to cause a horse to slow down or stop; whoa.

Variant of woe.

wo (countable and uncountable, plural wos)

1. Obsolete spelling of woe
   • 1815, Philip Freneau, A collection of poems, on American affairs and a variety of other subjects, page 82:

     Such feeble arms, to work internal wo!

   • Hannah More

     But if there was a competition between a sick family and a new broach, the broach was sure to carry the day. This would not have been the case, had they been habituated to visit themselves the abodes of penury and wo.

• 'ow, ow

wo

1. to go home

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Compare Bonan wa, perhaps from Proto-Mongolic *bü- (“to be”), see Mongolian бий (bij).

• IPA^(key): /wo/, [wo]

wo (defective, copulative)

1. to be
   1. existential copula

      Eqie guanjinde nie sizi wo, nie basi wo.

      Once upon a time there was a lion and a tiger.

   2. equitive copula

      Bi shi er dui nie bawan, yi dui bawan shi jiu Rejie wo, san dui bawan shi nie halao Remi wo.

      I was the bigshot of the second team, the bigshot of the first team was Rejie and the bigshot of the third team was one ugly Remi.

   3. adjectival copula

      Ene shihoude sumulase hunnerei wo dei.

      If I think [about it] now, it's funny.

2. in possessive constructions with the possessor in dative

   Ene ghualade nie ghoni wo.

   These two had a sheep.

3. (after -zhi) forming the progressive tense

   Bi ene agvinni nanbangiede nie jian wafande sauzhi wo.

   I live [am living] in a one bedroom house at the south of the village.

• Usually combined with the Chinese copula shi which is placed between two terms while wo follows the second. Either of them or even both can be omitted but both being present is usually the most common setup.

• shi
• wei
• enbe

• pushi
• u

• -zho - contraction of -zhi wo.

wo

1. them
2. they

With a widespread dialectal shift from -ā- to -ō-, from Middle High German wā, wār, from Old High German wār, hwār, from Proto-Germanic *hwēr, *hwar. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis, whence also wer. Cognate with English where.

• IPA^(key): /voː/

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• Rhymes: -oː

wo

1. (interrogative) where (at what place)

   Wo bist du?

   Where are you?

2. (relative) where (at or in which place or situation)

   Ich kenne einen Laden, wo solche Sachen verkauft werden.

   I know a shop where such things are sold.

3. (relative, somewhat informal) when, that (on which; at which time)

   Das war der Tag, wo wir uns kennen gelernt haben.

   That was the day when we got to know each other.

4. (indefinite, colloquial) somewhere (in or to an uncertain or unspecified location)

   Ich wär gern wo, wo's wärmer ist.

   I'd like to be somewhere where it's warmer.

• The temporal use of wo (meaning “when”) is sometimes frowned upon in formal standard German. There is a tendency to use a preposition + relative pronoun instead: Das war der Tag, an dem wir uns kennen gelernt haben. (“That was the day on which we got to know each other.”) Nevertheless, this usage is very common in spoken German and is also widely acceptable in writing, particularly after adverbs, where the only alternative would be the archaic da: Jetzt, wo ich es weiß, wird mir alles klar. (“Now that I know, it all becomes clear to me.”) Compare French où (“where”), the temporal use of which is perfectly standard.

wo

1. (colloquial) when

   Wo ich mich umgedreht hab, haut der mir unvermittelt eine rein.

   When I turned around, he just abruptly punched me in the face.

• This usage is exclusively colloquial and would be considered inappropriate in a formal text.

• als

wo

1. (relative, dialectal, nonstandard) who, whom, which, that

   Ich bin der, wo das kann.

   I'm the one who can do that.

• This use is dialectal and widely restricted to Alemannic areas (Switzerland and south-western Germany). In other regions, this usage is unusual, and scorned by some.

• woanders, wobei

From Middle Low German wô (“how”), from Old Saxon [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *hwō. Cognate with English how, German wie, Dutch hoe.

• (in some dialects) woans

• (in some dialects) IPA^(key): /vɔu̯/
• (traditional) IPA^(key): [wɔʊ̯]

wo

1. how

   Wo vele Daag?

   How many days?

From Old Saxon hwē, from Proto-Germanic *hwaz. Compare English who, whom, whose.

wo

1. (Low Prussian, relative) who, which

   (Low Prussian)

   Dat, wo ös... ― that which is...

The dative form (also used for the accusative) is woom (wom); the genitive form is woos (wos).

From French haut (“high”).

wo

1. high
2. tall

wo

1. high

• wotè

From Middle High German wā, wār, from Old High German wār, hwār, from Proto-Germanic *hwēr, *hwar.

• IPA^(key): /voː/

wo

1. (interrogative) where

   Wo bist-du?

   Where are you.

2. (relative) where

   Ich waarte dich, wo mein Fatter wohnd.

   I will wait for you where my father lives.

3. (relative) when

   In denne Zeid, wo alles deirer waar.

   In those times when everything was more expensive.

wo

1. (relative) who

   De Mann, wost-du sihst, is mein Fatter.

   The man you see is my father.

   Die Fraa, wo uns gerufd hod, siehd aarich bees aus.

   The woman who called us seems pretty angry.

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

wo

1. Rōmaji transcription of を
2. Rōmaji transcription of ヲ
3. Rōmaji transcription of うぉ
4. Rōmaji transcription of ウォ

wo

1. Superseded spelling of wó.

wo

1. second-person singular imperative of woen

wo (Zhuyin ˙ㄨㄛ)

1. Nonstandard spelling of wō.
2. Nonstandard spelling of wǒ.
3. Nonstandard spelling of wò.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

wo (plural wos)

1. Alternative form of woo

wo

1. how, to what degree

-wo

1. Combining stem of wona.

-wo

1. Combining stem of wona.