whither

«whither» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: where to — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

where to

part of speech

adverb

meaning for a pupil

To what place; to which place. tree →

how it differs from today

Today we say "where to" or "to where"; the word is old and no longer used in everyday speech.

examples

• Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad. (Torah DEU.23.12, JPS 1917) tree →
• We know whither they are taken! (Andersen's Fairy Tales) tree →
• And he returned unto his brethren, and said: 'The child is not; and as for me, whither shall I go?' (Torah GEN.37.30, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

manual 10.1; corpora 162 (Torah 38, tales 124, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 18.4 (Torah alone 88.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When ye come into the land whither I bring you,
• But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, whither he fleeth;
• Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad.
• but in the place whither they have led him captive, there shall he die, and he shall see this land no more.
• And they went every one straight forward; whither the spirit was to go, they went; they turned not when they went.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «whither» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.