-ways

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 174 words | Copyright

-ways repr. weġes, g. sg. of OE. weġ WAY, as in ōðres weġes (XII), dial. otherways by another route, alles weis always, nanes weis (XIII) noways.

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