who
要点だれが、ところの、そしてその人は(を)
意味
- 世界保健機関(World Health Organization)
- 《疑問代名詞》だれが,どんな人が
- 《関係代名詞》(先行詞は「人」)
- 《制限用法》(…する,…した)ところの
- 《非制限用法》そしてその人は(を),それは…する(した)人だが
- 《古》《先行詞を含んで》…する人[はだれでも]
例文
Who was it that bought those pictures yesterday?
昨日その絵を買ったのは誰だろう。
He who touches pitch shall be defiled therewith.
朱に交われば赤くなる。
Who has been absent from school for three weeks?
３週間学校を休んでいる人はだれですか。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
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.
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