Quote Originally Posted by it-ogo View Post
My dictionary says that in English there are both a noun "here" and an adverb "here".
I'm not sure about this, maybe a late misconcieved grammaticalization, like double negations, natural to the language, were banned because they are "contrary to the logic". Etymologically in Germanic languages "her" is an adverb, and it was substantivated in English as a noun only later, not a rare event. In Russian we have combinations of от- + сюда as well and there is no noun "сюда", although the compound is absolutely same. I only meant that it's simply a matter of spelling convention. French d'ici, German von hier (why not vonhier?) etc.