Talk:ways

Hoverboards Are a Ways Off

what meaning is used in the headline Hoverboards Are a Ways Off ? --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:33, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

And just down the hill aways another big man is buried

Does the definition "a distance" fit the quotation in aways? : And just down the hill aways another big man is buried --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:56, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Adverb

Seven women killed various ways --Backinstadiums (talk) 21:53, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

@Backinstadiums: No, this is more or less Accusativus mensurae, meaning the manner in which an action is spread, very often in various contexts in many Indo-European languages. See also adverbial accusative—I don’t see that it does not exist only because it is not usually said of English. Arabic also has topic and comment-structure although this is rarely ever said. Compare also German -weise, which is not necessarily a suffix only because it is written that way. So you see at least there are multiple ways to analyse your example, preferrable to reckoning it an adverb, however you see it. Fay Freak (talk) 23:12, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

@Fay Freak: In adverbial phrases like (in) all ways, (in) any way, (in) one way, (in) more ways than one, etc., the sense of ‘manner’ (see 14) passes into that of: An aspect, feature, or respect; a point or particular of comparison.

Coupled with manner. Also in adverbial phrases, all manner of ways, any manner of way (†ways) https://www.oed.com/oed2/00281830 --Backinstadiums (talk) 07:59, 25 August 2021 (UTC)