{"id":17245,"date":"2018-12-19T15:11:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T14:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=17245"},"modified":"2018-12-19T15:11:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T14:11:20","slug":"where","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=17245","title":{"rendered":"Where? Whence? Whither?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/where.gif\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px;\" alt=\"Where, Whence, Whither?\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In Russian, there are several different words meaning where. Each one means something slightly different, although in English they can all be translated as <strong>where<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u0433\u0434\u0435<\/strong> [\u0261d\u02b2e] means where, as in what location, and can also mean anywhere or somewhere. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u0413\u0434\u0435 \u0412\u044b \u0436\u0438\u0432\u0451\u0442\u0435? = Where do you live?<\/li>\n<li>\u041f\u043e\u0434\u0443\u043c\u0430\u0439\u0442\u0435, \u043d\u0435 \u0437\u0430\u0431\u044b\u043b\u0438 \u043b\u0438 \u0433\u0434\u0435 = Try and think whether you left it anywhere \/ somewhere<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Related words include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u0433\u0434\u0435-\u043d\u0438\u0431\u0443\u0434\u044c = somewhere,  anywhere<\/li>\n<li>\u0433\u0434\u0435-\u0442\u043e = somewhere<\/li>\n<li>\u043d\u0435\u0433\u0434\u0435 = nowhere<\/li>\n<li>\u043a\u043e\u0435-\u0433\u0434\u0435 = here and there<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u0433\u0434\u0435<\/strong> comes the from Old East Slavic <em>\u043a\u044a\u0434\u0435<\/em> (k\u016dde &#8211; where), from the Proto-Slavic <em>k\u044ade<\/em> (where), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*k\u02b7\u00fa-d\u02b0e<\/em> (where).<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u043a\u0443\u0434\u0430<\/strong> [k\u028a\u02c8da] means where (to), and also what, why or much. It is the equivalent of <strong>whither<\/strong> in English, although that is rarely used these days. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u041a\u0443\u0434\u0430 \u0442\u044b \u0438\u0434\u0451\u0448\u044c? = Where are you going?<\/li>\n<li>\u041a\u0443\u0434\u0430 \u043c\u043d\u0435 \u0441\u0442\u043e\u043b\u044c\u043a\u043e \u0434\u0435\u043d\u0435\u0433? Why would I want so much money?<\/li>\n<li>\u041c\u043e\u0439 \u0434\u043e\u043c \u043a\u0443\u0434\u0430 \u0431\u043e\u043b\u044c\u0448\u0435 = My house is much bigger<\/li>\n<li>\u041e\u043d \u043f\u0440\u0435\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0441\u043d\u043e \u0437\u043d\u0430\u043b, \u043a\u0443\u0434\u0430 \u0431\u0435\u0436\u0430\u0442\u044c = This kid knew exactly what he was doing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Related words include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u043a\u043e\u0435-\u043a\u0443\u0434\u0430  = this place and that<\/li>\n<li>\u043a\u0443\u0434\u0430-\u043d\u0438\u0431\u0443\u0434\u044c  = anywhere, somewhere<\/li>\n<li>\u043a\u0443\u0434\u0430-\u0442\u043e  = somewhere<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u043a\u0443\u0434\u0430<\/strong> comes from the Proto-Slavic <em>*k\u01ebda<\/em> (    where, whither), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*k\u02b7om-d\u02b0-<\/em> (where).<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u043e\u0442\u043a\u0443\u0434\u0430<\/strong> [\u0250t\u02c8kud\u0259] means where from, from where, from which or <strong>whence<\/strong> (another rarely-used word). For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u041e\u0442\u043a\u0443\u0434\u0430 \u0442\u044b? = Where are you from?<\/li>\n<li>\u041e\u0442\u043a\u0443\u0434\u0430 \u0442\u044b \u044d\u0442\u043e \u0437\u043d\u0430\u0435\u0448\u044c? = How do you know about that?<\/li>\n<li>\u041e\u0442\u043a\u0443\u0434\u0430 \u044f \u0437\u043d\u0430\u044e? = How do I know?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Related words include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u043e\u0442\u043a\u0443\u0434\u0430-\u043d\u0438\u0431\u0443\u0434\u044c = from somewhere (or other)<\/li>\n<li>\u043e\u0442\u043a\u0443\u0434\u0430-\u0442\u043e = from somewhere<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u043e\u0442\u043a\u0443\u0434\u0430<\/strong> comes from the same root as <strong>\u043a\u0443\u0434\u0430<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Sources: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/russian-english\/%D0%B3%D0%B4%D0%B5\">Reverso<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%D0%B3%D0%B4%D0%B5\">Wiktionary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Russian, there are several different words meaning where. Each one means something slightly different, although in English they can all be translated as where. \u0433\u0434\u0435 [\u0261d\u02b2e] means where, as in what location, and can also mean anywhere or somewhere. For example: \u0413\u0434\u0435 \u0412\u044b \u0436\u0438\u0432\u0451\u0442\u0435? = Where do you live? \u041f\u043e\u0434\u0443\u043c\u0430\u0439\u0442\u0435, \u043d\u0435 \u0437\u0430\u0431\u044b\u043b\u0438 \u043b\u0438 \u0433\u0434\u0435 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,10,45,47,52,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-proto-indo-european","category-proto-slavic","category-russian","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}