ever

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 179 words | Copyright

ever OE. ǣfre, a purely Eng. formation, of unkn. orig. The first syll. is prob. the mutation of ā ever, AY.
Hence evergreen XVII, everlasting XIV, evermore XIII.

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