somewhy
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From some why, in analogy with somewhere, somehow etc.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈsʌmwai/, /ˈsʌmʍai/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adverb
[edit]somewhy (not comparable)
- (rare) For some reason
- 1864, Robert Browning, “Mr. Sludge, "The Medium"”, in Wikisource, line 505[1], retrieved 2012-01-18:
- Out of the drift of facts, whereby you learn
What some was, somewhere, somewhen, somewhy?
- 1988, William Morris, 1924, quotee, edited by Thomas P. Riggio, Letters to Women: New Letters[2], Reprint edition, University of Illinois Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 179:
- I loved them both—but not so very much else in the book—but I read them over twice & thought—somewhy—of Highland Park & our quaint little trips to Los Angles[sic] & elsewhere thereabouts on the street car.