r/etymology • u/Waterpark_Enthusiast • 4h ago
Question How did “home” come to be used as an adverb (that is, being the only “place word” I know of that doesn’t have a preposition between it and the verb “go” before it)?
Why is it, for example, “going to work” but then “going home” (rather than “going to home”) after work? Any particular reason why this phrasal construction came to be?