somewhere, anywhere · somehow, in some unspecified way · pronominal adverb form of iets; something
zıt: nergens
köken: From Middle Dutch ergens, ergent, ergen, irgen, from Old Dutch *iergin, *iowergin, from Proto-Germanic *euhwargin. Cognate with Old Saxon hwergin (> Middle Low German ergent, ergens), Old High German hwergin, iowergin (> Middle High German iergen, > German irgend), Old English hwerġen, Old Norse hvargi.
köken: From ali- (“some”) + cubī̆ (“where”), the original form of ubī̆, from the PIE interrogative stem *kʷo-. Compare uter (“which of two”) which replaced *cuter, from *kʷóteros.