Contextualizebeta

elsewhither

adv
/ˈɛlswɪðə/UK/ˈɛlswɪðɚ/US

Etymology

From else + whither (“to which place, to what place”).

  1. inherited from *kʷos✻ — “what; which”
  2. inherited from *hwadrê✻ — “to what place, where”
  3. inherited from hwider
  4. inherited from whider — “to what place?; into or to which; to what place, where; no matter where, to wherever”
  5. compounded as elsewhither — “else + whither”

Definitions

  1. To some other place

    To some other place; in some other direction.

    • ; more at somewhere else
    • With Strickland the sexual appetite took a very small place. It was unimportant. It was irksome. His soul aimed elsewhither.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for elsewhither. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA