† aywhere, adv. Obs.
Forms: 1 ǽᵹhwǽr, eᵹhuær, -hwer, eghwar, 3 aihware, aiware, eihwer, 4 ayquar(e, aywhare, 5 aywhore, 4–5 aywhere.
[OE. ǽᵹhwǽr, for ǽᵹehwǽr, cogn. with OHG. eogihwâr, f. á ever + ᵹehwǽr everywhere, ‘ubique.’ See ywhere. Thus really the equivalent of ever-ywhere, but in ME. phonetically reduced so as to look like a compound of ay ‘ever’ and where; hence ay-when.]
Everywhere.
| c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Mark xvi. 20 Hi ða farende æᵹhwar bodedon [Lindisf. eᵹhuær; Rushw. eᵹhwer]. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 222 He þe godes wille doð aihware. c 1220 Hali Meid. 39 Te weane eihwer passeð þe winne. a 1250 Owl & Night. 216 Ho had i-lorned wel aiware. c 1300 K. Alis. 6754 Eghwar by my weyes. c 1325 E.E. Allit. P. B. 228 On vch syde of þe worlde aywhere ilyche. c 1460 Towneley Myst. 115 To slepe aywhore. 1470 Harding Chron. xcv, As myster was ay where. |