somewhy en · ADV
Pronunciation
Etymology
From some + why, in analogy with somewhere, somehow etc.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, rare) For some reason.
Out of the drift of facts, whereby you learn What some was, somewhere, somewhen, somewhy?
1864, Robert Browning, “Mr. Sludge, "The Medium"”, in Wikisource, line 505, retrieved 18 Jan 2012:Somewhy I've always had this stupid idea that something or something or somebody awful is waiting here for me.
2003, Cameron Royce Jess, Bearer of the Chose Seed (Fiction), Inscape Publications, →ISBN, page 15:Or is it actually him? Still holding on somewhere, somehow, somewhy.
2011, Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies (Fiction), Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 92:I loved them both—but not so very much else in the book—but I read them over twice & thought—somewhy—of Highland Park & our quaint little trips to Los Angles^([sic]) & elsewhere thereabouts on the street car.
1988, William Morris, 1924, quotee, edited by Thomas P. Riggio, Letters to Women: New Letters, Reprint edition, University of Illinois Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 179:But somehow, somewhy, he did something and that woman knew it. And somehow, somewhy on a whole lot of other days he doesn't do anything we can see ...
2008, Margaret Feinberg, “Bring Them to Me”, in The Sacred Echo, Zondervan, →ISBN, page unk:
Translations (4)
uk чомусь (for some reason) · pl jakoś (for some reason) · eo ial (for some reason) · ru почему-то (for some reason)