why

Signification (English)

1. For what cause, reason, or purpose.
2. For what cause, reason, or purpose.
3. For what cause, reason, or purpose.
4. For what cause, reason, or purpose.
5. For which cause, reason, or purpose.
6. The cause, reason, or purpose for which.

pourquoi

raison

pour quelle raison

que

qu’est-ce que

pourquoi donc

à quoi

dans quel but

et pour cause

par quel moyen

pourquoi?

for what reason

for what purpose

for what

why is that

in what way

whereby

you see

for which reason

the reason why

what the hell

for what cause

by what ? whence

it has no meaning

how can one tolerate

after all

interrogative particle

what kind of

what’s up

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ʍaɪ/

Inherited from moyen anglais

Inherited from ancien anglais

Cognate with Old Saxon

Cognate with moyen haut-allemand

Cognate with danois

Cognate with norvégien bokmål

Cognate with norvégien nynorsk

Cognate with suédois

Cognate with féroïen

Cognate with islandais

Cognate with latin

Cognate with ukrainien

Cognate with polonais

Cognate with tchèque

Cognate with serbo-croate

Cognate with ancien anglais

In summary

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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