Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Away with you! Go away! Begone!
From a place, hence. · Aside; off; in another direction. · Aside, so as to discard something. · At a stated distance in time or space.
To depart; to go to another place.
Not here, gone, absent, unavailable, traveling; on vacation. · At a specified distance in space, time, or figuratively. · Not on one's home territory. · Out.
From Middle English away, awey, awei, oway, o wey, on way, from Old English āweġ, onweġ (“away”), originally on weġ (“on one's way; onward; on”), equivalent to a- (“on”) + way. Cognate with Scots awa, away (“away”), Old Frisian aweg, awei (“away”), Saterland Frisian wäch, wääge (“away”), Dutch weg (“away”), German weg (“away”), Danish væk (“away”), Swedish i väg (“away; off; along”).
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