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Middle English
Etymology
From som + whether.
Adverb
somwhether
- In some direction.
1398, Bartholomeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum, III. xvii. (W. de W.) 61; quoted in “Somewhither (sɒ·mhwiðəɹ), adv.”, in James A H Murray [et al.], editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes IX, Part 1 (Si–St), London: Clarendon Press, 1884–1928, →OCLC, page 418, column 2:The syghte is made by lynes that passyth not awaye forth ryght, but blenchyth somwhether asyde of the strayte waye.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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