Re[2]: [tied] Re: Negation

At 7:39:14 PM on Saturday, December 6, 2008, Piotr
Gasiorowski wrote:

> 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'.

And I believe that Scots <everilk> is found as late as the
19th century.

Brian