also ǽᵹhwǽr, aihware, aiware, ayquar, aywhare, aywhore, eghwar, eihwer, eᵹhuær, eᵹhwer CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES Old English ǽᵹhwǽr, for ǽᵹehwǽr, cognitive with Old High German eogihwâr, from á ever + ᵹehwǽr everywhere, ‘ubique.’ Thus really the equivalent of ever-ywhere, but in Middle English phonetically reduced so as to look like a compound of ay ‘ever’ and where; hence ay-when c 1000 - Anglo-Saxon Gospels; see below From: The Gospel according to Saint Mark In Anglo-Saxon and Northumbrian Versions Edited by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat, 1871 Cap. XVI P. 134 From: Seinte Marherete the Meiden Ant Martyr, in Old English,
Edited by Oswald Cockayne, 1866 Seinte Marherete Modernized P. 62
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