daher German · revision 34958

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=1187/89, Heinrich von Veldeke's Eneide|origins=goh dār, goh hera}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /ˈdaːheːɐ̯/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''daher''' (adverb; in the chancery style of the 17th and 18th centuries also ''dahero'')^(Paul 2002)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|gmh|dâher]], formed from [[da]] and [[her]], recorded since Middle High German and at first often written separately.^(DWB2|6, 75)^(Paul 2002)^(Wiktionary) The same formation is [[gml|dārhēr]] and the modern Dutch [[m|nl|daarher]].^(DWB2|6, 75) Wiktionary traces it to a phrase [[goh|dâr hera]], though the Grimms found no Old High German example.^(Wiktionary)^(Wiktionary DE)^(DWB|2, 679)

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+ The first part, [[m|goh|dār|t=there]], is a locative formation in /-r/ on the demonstrative stem [[ine-pro|*to-]], like [[ang|þǣr]] and [[got|𐌸𐌰𐍂|tr=þar]]; the final /r/ was lost in unstressed words from Middle High German times.^(Kluge 2011|177)^(EWA|2, 533) The second, [[m|goh|hera|t=hither]], adds a suffix of direction to the pronominal stem that marks the speaker's place.^(Kluge 2011|410)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The revised Grimm dictionary's earliest quotation is from Heinrich von Veldeke's ''Eneide'' (1187/89), where it means “hither, to this place”.^(DWB2|6, 75) In Middle High German the word was used only of space and time: “from there” (''dâ her von Îrlande'' in the Gudrun) and “hither” (in Hartmann's ''Iwein'' and Wolfram's ''Parzival'').^(DWB|2, 679)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The causal sense “therefore, for that reason” grew out of “from there” in the 16th century, and the chancery style wrote ''dahero''.^(Paul 2002) Until Goethe and Schiller the word could, like ''da'', be used as a relative, both of place and cause, as in Luther's ''des Gebirges Ephraim, daher ich bin''.^(Paul 2002) The sense “hither” lasted into the 19th century, and into the 20th in Bavarian and Austrian German.^(DWB2|6, 75) Early New High German also used it of time, “until now”.^(FWB)^(Paul 2002)

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+ With verbs of motion, ''daher'' came to be used without reference to a particular place, “along”, as in ''dahergehen'' or ''daherbrausen''; it is then stressed on ''her''.^(Paul 2002)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1187/89 – Heinrich von Veldeke's ''Eneide'' uses ''dâ her'' “hither”.^(DWB2|6, 75)

+ * 13th century – The Gudrun uses ''dâ her'' “from there”.^(DWB|2, 679)

+ * 16th century – The causal sense “therefore” develops.^(Paul 2002)

+ * 17th century – Written together with present participles of verbs of motion.^(DWB2|6, 75)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # From there, [[m|en|thence]]: ''Ich komme gerade daher.''^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(regional)'' Here, to this place.^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary DE)

+ # From this source or cause, for this reason: ''Daher kommt seine schlechte Laune.''^(Duden GWDS 1999)

+ # [[m|en|therefore]], so: ''Er war krank und blieb daher zu Hause.''^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)

+ # With verbs of motion, along.^(Wiktionary)^(Paul 2002)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[daherkommen]]

+ * [[dahergelaufen]]

+ * [[daherreden]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[da]]

+ * [[her]]

+ * [[dahin]]

+ * [[deshalb]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ In the causal sense the stress is on the first syllable; with verbs of motion (''daherkommen'') on the second.^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Paul 2002) Colloquially the parts can be separated: ''da kommt das her''.^(Duden GWDS 1999)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}