"whose"

[Leo A. Connolly]

"David L. White" wrote:

Responding to a question, David L. White wrote:

>> Isn't cuius cognate to English <whose>?

>         I suppose I was not entirely clear about two things.
>         First, how Germanic /hwes/ changes into modern English /huz/.
> Basically, it doesn't:  the modern form is a reformation from /hu/.  As for
> how /hwaa/ changes into /hu/, when it should be /ho/ (as /taa/ gives /to/),

Not that it matters here, but wasn't the OE genitive form _hwæs_
(_hwaes_, if your machine can't handle the digraph), which points to PIE
_o_ rather than _e_?

Leo Connolly