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        "hwaɪ",
        "waɪ"
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      "etymologies": [
        "From Middle English why, from Old English hwȳ (“why”), from Proto-Germanic *hwī (“by what, how”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷey, instrumental case of *kʷis (“who”), *kʷid (“what”).\nCognate with Old Saxon hwī (“why”), hwiu (“how; why”), Middle High German wiu (“how, why”), archaic Danish and Norwegian Bokmål hvi (“why”), Norwegian Nynorsk kvi (“why”), Swedish vi (“why”), Faroese and Icelandic hví (“why”), Latin quī (“why”), Ancient Greek πεῖ (peî, “where”). Compare Old English þȳ (“because, since, on that account, therefore, then”, literally “by that, for that”). See thy.",
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              "mean": "(interrogative) For what cause, reason, or purpose.",
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                "Introducing a complete question.\nWhy is the sky blue?\nWhy did you do that?\nI don’t know why he did that\nTell me why the moon changes phase.\n\nWith a negative, used rhetorically to make a suggestion.\nWhy don't you ask her out for dinner?",
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                "Introducing a verb phrase (bare infinitive clause).\nWhy spend money on something you already get for free?\nWhy not tell him how you feel?",
                "Introducing a noun or other phrase.\nWhy him? Why not someone taller?"
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              "mean": "(relative) For which cause, reason, or purpose.\nThat's the reason why I did that."
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              "mean": "(fused relative) The cause, reason, or purpose for which.\nThat is why the sky is blue."
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          "name": "Noun",
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              "mean": "Reason.\nA good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how."
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          "name": "Interjection",
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              "mean": "(dated or literary) An exclamation used to express pleasant or unpleasant mild surprise, indignation, or impatience.\nWhy, that’s ridiculous!    Why, how kind of you!"
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            {
              "mean": "Terms derived from the adverb, conjunction, noun, or interjection why\n\nwhyever\nwhy in God's name\nwhy not\nwhy on Earth\nwhys and wherefores\nwhy the Devil\nwhy the dickens\nwhy the fuck"
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          "name": "Noun_2",
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            {
              "mean": "(UK, dialect, archaic) A young heifer.\n1796,  William Marshall,  The Rural Economy of Yorkshire:At two years old, also, the HEIFERS - provincially, “whies,” are generally put to the bull."
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          ]
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          "meanlist": [
            {
              "mean": "why in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G.  C. Merriam, 1913\nwhy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911"
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          "name": "부사.",
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          "name": "인터젝션",
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        "how come, wherefore, to what end, what for, why so"
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