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Spanish
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Etymology
From Old Spanish do (“where”) + quiera (“it may want”) with do being a contraction of de (“of”) + o (“in where”), from ubi (“where?”). o has been displaced by donde (from Latin dē (“from”) + unde (“whence”)) in Modern Spanish (hence dondequiera).
Adverb
doquiera
- (dated) everywhere
- Synonym: dondequiera
Doquiera vas, traes desastres.- Everywhere you go, you bring disasters.
1923, Helen Loudora Pohle, The Subjunctive in Ruiz's "Libro de Buen Amor", section 27:Fablad doquiera vos vayáis.- Speak everywhere ye go.
- (dated) wherever (when used with que)
- Synonym: dondequiera que
Doquiera que vos vayáis, yo estaré convusco.- Wherever ye go, I shall be with you.
1923, Helen Loudora Pohle, The Subjunctive in Ruiz's "Libro de Buen Amor", section 27:Toda la maldat del mundo es doquiera que tu seas.- All the evil in the world is wherever you are.
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