“什么”一词的语源问题,吕叔湘先生在《近代汉语指代词》一书中认为其早期形式应该是“是物(勿)”。江苏省北部沭阳、东海、新沂等地区的方言有“是物(勿)”用作疑问代词的现象,应该说这一现象是保留了“什么”一词的原始语源形式(为行文方便起见,用例中只用“是物”一种形式举例)。(1)小张,你来看看是物站在那里? “What ” the source of the word, Mr. Lv Shuxiang in “modern Chinese deixis” a book that its early form should be “thing (do not) ”. The dialects of Shuyang, Donghai, and Xinyi in the northern part of Jiangsu Province have the phenomenon of using “things (Do not)” as interrogative pronouns. It should be said that this phenomenon retains the original source form of “what” For the sake of convenience, the use case only uses “” thing "as an example). (1) Xiao Zhang, you look at the station is there?