The story
- Old English · inherited fromnāhwider
- Middle English · inherited fromnowhider
- Old English · inherited fromnāhwanon
- Middle English · inherited from*nowhennes
- English todaynowhence
Unattested as Middle English *nowhennes, but ultimately from Old English nāhwanon. It may be reconstructed by analogy to nowhither from Middle English nowhider, from Old English nāhwider. Analyzable as no + whence.
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishnowhider all →
nowhither
Old Englishnāhwider all →
nowhither
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.