# whither

> English word · Adverb · IPA /ˈwɪðə/ · frequency rank #52,099

## Definitions
1. Interrogative senses.
2. Interrogative senses.
3. Relative senses.
4. Relative senses.
5. Relative senses.

## Etymology
From Middle English whider (“to what place?; into or to which; to what place, where; no matter where, to wherever”), from Old English hwider, hwæder (“to what place, where”), from Proto-Germanic *hwadrê (“to what place, where”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos (“what; which”), from *kʷ- (the primary interrogative root).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/whither