Timeline for Has any language ever borrowed an interrogative or relative pronoun?
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| Aug 20, 2014 at 16:55 | comment | added | TKR | Quiddity is certainly not the kind of thing I'm asking about; it's a noun borrowed as a noun, not to mention being hardly ever used outside of certain rarefied registers. | |
| Aug 20, 2014 at 15:19 | comment | added | jlawler | A borrowing is a borrowing. One need not borrow the grammatical use as well as the word; for one thing it's inevitable that the grammatical use of pronouns of any sort will be different in general and in detail, in different languages. | |
| Aug 20, 2014 at 14:23 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | But quidditas is a noun. | |
| Aug 20, 2014 at 14:18 | comment | added | fdb | quid is interrogative. | |
| Aug 20, 2014 at 14:02 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | And they, them, their are borrowings from Old Norse. But none of these is an interrogative or relative. | |
| Aug 20, 2014 at 11:11 | history | answered | fdb | CC BY-SA 3.0 |