Re: Negation

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 61936
Date: 2008-12-07

On 2008-12-06 23:31, tgpedersen wrote:

> But if ever-y is to be divided that way, 'ever' is a noun.

This is a folk-etymological shot in the dark. The actual source of every
(early ME everich, everelch) is the LOE phrase <æ:fre æ:ghwilc/æ:lc>
(the second word = a:-ge-(hwy:-)li:c), literally 'ever each'.

Piotr