alteration of hwæder, from Proto-Germanic *hwadrê. IPA(key): /ˈhwidər/ <span class="searchmatch">whider</span> whither 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Squiers Tale”, in The Tales...
<span class="searchmatch">whider</span> (“whither”) + -ward whiderward whitherward 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Ffrankeleẏns Tale”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer;...
āhwæder (“to anywhere”) ġehwæder (“in all directions”) nāhwæder (“to nowhere”) Middle English: <span class="searchmatch">whider</span> English: whither (archaic) Yola: fidi, vidy, vidie...
whitherwards Inherited from Middle English whiderward, from <span class="searchmatch">whider</span> (“whither”). By surface analysis, whither + ward. whitherward (not comparable) (archaic...
(wine–whine merger) Rhymes: -ɪðə(ɹ) Hyphenation: whi‧ther From Middle English <span class="searchmatch">whider</span> (“to what place?; into or to which; to what place, where; no matter where...