"nowhither" meaning in English

See nowhither in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

Etymology: From Middle English nowhider, from Old English nāhwider. Analyzable as no + whither. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*kʷ-}}, {{inh|en|enm|nowhider}} Middle English nowhider, {{inh|en|ang|nāhwider}} Old English nāhwider, {{compound|en|no|whither}} no + whither Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} nowhither (not comparable)
  1. (archaic) nowhere; to no place. Tags: archaic, not-comparable
    Sense id: en-nowhither-en-adv-y6xIW7ep Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for nowhither meaning in English (1.5kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*kʷ-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "nowhider"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English nowhider",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "nāhwider"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English nāhwider",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "no",
        "3": "whither"
      },
      "expansion": "no + whither",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English nowhider, from Old English nāhwider. Analyzable as no + whither.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "nowhither (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1869, George MacDonald, The Seaboard Parish",
          "text": "They come nowhence, and they go nowhither. But now I see them and all things as ever moving symbols of the motions of man's spirit and destiny.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, Clara Elizabeth Laughlin, The work-a-day girl: a study of some present day conditions",
          "text": "Other paths had looked as promising and had led nowhither. Nevertheless, she tried this one.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "nowhere; to no place."
      ],
      "id": "en-nowhither-en-adv-y6xIW7ep",
      "links": [
        [
          "nowhere",
          "nowhere"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) nowhere; to no place."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nowhither"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*kʷ-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "nowhider"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English nowhider",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "nāhwider"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English nāhwider",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "no",
        "3": "whither"
      },
      "expansion": "no + whither",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English nowhider, from Old English nāhwider. Analyzable as no + whither.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "nowhither (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adverbs",
        "English compound terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms derived from Middle English",
        "English terms derived from Old English",
        "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kʷ-",
        "English terms inherited from Middle English",
        "English terms inherited from Old English",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adverbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1869, George MacDonald, The Seaboard Parish",
          "text": "They come nowhence, and they go nowhither. But now I see them and all things as ever moving symbols of the motions of man's spirit and destiny.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, Clara Elizabeth Laughlin, The work-a-day girl: a study of some present day conditions",
          "text": "Other paths had looked as promising and had led nowhither. Nevertheless, she tried this one.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "nowhere; to no place."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nowhere",
          "nowhere"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) nowhere; to no place."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nowhither"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.