Etymograph

English

everything

Everything comes from Middle English every thing.

  1. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500every thing1
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1859everything1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English everything
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1859, Charles Dickens, The Ghost in Master B’s Room: “Then, I was sent to a great, cold, bare,…”.

Lineage

  1. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500every thingWiktionary, English everything
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1859everythingWiktionary, English everything. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1859, Charles Dickens, The Ghost in Master B’s Room: “Then, I was sent to a great, cold, bare,…”

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Today it means

pron All the things under discussion.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “everything”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Middle English every thing / everything