who

名词 n. 代词 pron. 限定词 det.
中文释义
英 /huː/|[huː]|[hʊw]|[hʉw]|[hʉː]    美 [hu(ː)]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person under discussion; a question of which person.
    — A wham-bam caper flick, efficiently directed by Roger Donaldson, that fancifully revisits the mysterious whos and speculative hows of a 1971 London bank heist.
代词 pron.
  1. What person or people; which person or people; asks for the identity of someone; used in a direct or indirect question. interrogative,nominative,plural,singular
    — You're getting married‽ Who to? (direct question)
  2. Introduces a relative clause having a human antecedent.; With antecedent as subject. nominative,plural,relative,singular
    — That's the man who works at the newsagent. (defining)
  3. Introduces a relative clause having a human antecedent.; With antecedent as object: whom. nominative,plural,relative,singular
    — That's the man who I saw earlier.
  4. Whoever, he who, they who. nominative,plural,singular
    — Who insults my mother insults me.
  5. Also used with names of collective nouns that are groups of people, especially singularly-named musical groups or sports teams. informal,nominative,plural,singular
    — Who are the Miami Heat?
限定词 det.
  1. whose dialectal,interrogative
    — Who phone just rang?

词形变化

whom objective who objective whose possessive whos plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English who, hwo, huo, wha, hwoa, hwa, from Old English hwā (dative hwām, genitive hwæs), from Proto-West Germanic *hwaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos, *kʷís.
The sound change /hw/ > /h/ (without a corresponding change in spelling) was due to wh-cluster reduction after an irregular change of /ɑː/ to /oː/ in Middle English (instead of the expected /ɔː/) and further to /uː/ regularly in Early Modern English. A similar change occurred in two. Compare how, which underwent wh-reduction earlier (in Old English), and thus is spelt with h.
Compare Scots wha, West Frisian wa, Dutch wie, Low German we, German wer, Swedish vem, Danish hvem, Norwegian Bokmål hvem, Norwegian Nynorsk kven, Icelandic hver.
词源 2
From Middle English who, hwo, huo, wha, hwoa, hwa, from Old English hwā (dative hwām, genitive hwæs), from Proto-West Germanic *hwaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos, *kʷís.
The sound change /hw/ > /h/ (without a corresponding change in spelling) was due to wh-cluster reduction after an irregular change of /ɑː/ to /oː/ in Middle English (instead of the expected /ɔː/) and further to /uː/ regularly in Early Modern English. A similar change occurred in two. Compare how, which underwent wh-reduction earlier (in Old English), and thus is spelt with h.
Compare Scots wha, West Frisian wa, Dutch wie, Low German we, German wer, Swedish vem, Danish hvem, Norwegian Bokmål hvem, Norwegian Nynorsk kven, Icelandic hver.
词源 3
From Middle English who, hwo, huo, wha, hwoa, hwa, from Old English hwā (dative hwām, genitive hwæs), from Proto-West Germanic *hwaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos, *kʷís.
The sound change /hw/ > /h/ (without a corresponding change in spelling) was due to wh-cluster reduction after an irregular change of /ɑː/ to /oː/ in Middle English (instead of the expected /ɔː/) and further to /uː/ regularly in Early Modern English. A similar change occurred in two. Compare how, which underwent wh-reduction earlier (in Old English), and thus is spelt with h.
Compare Scots wha, West Frisian wa, Dutch wie, Low German we, German wer, Swedish vem, Danish hvem, Norwegian Bokmål hvem, Norwegian Nynorsk kven, Icelandic hver.
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