English
everywhere
Everywhere comes from Middle English eauerihwer, from an Old English compound of æfre ‘ever’ and ġehwǣr.
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, English everywhere
- Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1928, Charles Francis Stocking, The Identity of Douglas Bain: “Flutters of excitement were everywhere apparent.”.
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500eauerihwerWiktionary, English everywhere
- Englishearliest quotation 1928everywhereWiktionary, English everywhere. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1928, Charles Francis Stocking, The Identity of Douglas Bain: “Flutters of excitement were everywhere apparent.”
A compound of æfre ‘ever’ + gehwær ‘everywhere’
Proto-Indo-European *perkʷ- ‘oak’
Proto-Germanic *ferhuz ‘body’
Proto-Germanic *ferhwą ‘tree’
Proto-West Germanic *ferh ‘life’
Old English feorh ‘life, existence’
Old English æfre ‘ever’
Proto-Indo-European *kʷos ‘interrogative pronoun’
Proto-Germanic *hwaz ‘what’
Proto-Germanic *hwar ‘where, in what place’
Proto-West Germanic *hwār ‘where’
Old English hwǣr ‘where’
Old English gehwær ‘everywhere’
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Today it means
adv In or to all locations under discussion.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “everywhere”. 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 eauerihwer / everywhere