English
elsewhere
Elsewhere comes from Middle English elswher, from Old English elles hwǣr ‘elsewhere’, i.e. else + where.
- Old Englishc. 450–1150elles hwǣr‘elsewhere’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500elswher‘elsewhere’
- Englishearliest quotation 2000elsewhere
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Old Englishc. 450–1150elles hwǣr‘elsewhere’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500elswher‘elsewhere’
- Englishearliest quotation 2000elsewhere
Earliest quotation: 2000, Angela M Jeannet: “We are back on the Ligurian coast, from which…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *kʷos ‘interrogative pronoun’
neutral, rapunzel, cadenza, whither, 4 more
through Proto-Germanic *hwaz ‘what’
Today it means
adv Synonym of somewhere else: in, at, or to some other place.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old English elles hwǣr / elsewhere