conj.
Function: conjunction
Date: before 12th century
― used as a function word usually with correlative or or with or whether to indicate (1) until the early 19th century a direct question involving alternatives; (2) an indirect question involving stated or implied alternatives <decide whether he should agree or raise objections> <wondered whether to stay>; (3) alternative conditions or possibilities <see me no more, whether he be dead or no ― Shakespeare> <seated him next to her whether by accident or design>
– whether or no or whether or not : in any case <they've only been married a very few weeks, whether or no ― Thomas Hardy>