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† 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.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Mark xvi. 20 Hi ða farende æᵹhwar bodedon [Lindisf. eᵹhuær; Rushw. eᵹhwer]. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 222 He þe godes wille doð aihware. c1220Hali Meid. 39 Te weane eihwer passeð þe winne. a1250Owl & Night. 216 Ho had i-lorned wel aiware. c1300K. Alis. 6754 Eghwar by my weyes. c1325E.E. Allit. P. B. 228 On vch syde of þe worlde aywhere ilyche. c1460Towneley Myst. 115 To slepe aywhore. 1470Harding Chron. xcv, As myster was ay where. |