why
Significat (anglès)
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- For what cause, reason, or purpose.
- For what cause, reason, or purpose.
- For what cause, reason, or purpose.
- For what cause, reason, or purpose.
- For which cause, reason, or purpose.
- The cause, reason, or purpose for which.
Sinònims
for what reason
for what purpose
for what
why is that
in what way
whereby
you see
for which reason
the reason why
for what cause
by what ? whence
it has no meaning
how can one tolerate
interrogative particle
what kind of
what’s up
Freqüència
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/ʍaɪ/
Etimologia (anglès)
From Middle English why, from Old English hwȳ (“why”), from Proto-Germanic *hwī (“by what, how”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷey, instrumental case of *kʷis (“who”), *kʷid (“what”). Cognate with Old Saxon hwī (“why”), hwiu (“how; why”), Middle High German wiu (“how, why”), archaic Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hvi (“why”), Norwegian Nynorsk kvi (“why”), Swedish vi (“why”), Faroese and Icelandic hví (“why”), Latin quī (“why”), Doric Greek πεῖ (peî, “where”), Ukrainian чи (čy, “if”), Polish czy, Czech či (“or”), Serbo-Croatian či (“if”). Compare Old English þȳ (“because, since, on that account, therefore, then”, literally “by that, for that”). See thy.
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