adv. Obs. Forms: 1 ǽʓhwǽr, eʓhuær, -hwer, eghwar, 3 aihware, aiware, eihwer, 4 ayquar(e, aywhare, 5 aywhore, 4–5 aywhere. [OE. ǽʓhwǽr, for ǽʓehwǽr, cogn. with OHG. eogihwâr, f. á ever + ʓehwǽr 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.
c. 1000. Ags. Gosp., Mark xvi. 20. Hi ða farende æʓhwar bodedon [Lindisf. eʓhuær; Rushw. eʓhwer].
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 222. He þe godes wille doð aihware.
c. 1220. Hali Meid., 39. Te weane eihwer passeð þe winne.
a. 1250. Owl & Night., 216. Ho had i-lorned wel aiware.
c. 1300. K. Alis., 6754. Eghwar by my weyes.
c. 1325. E. E. Allit. P., B. 228. On vch syde of þe worlde aywhere ilyche.
c. 1460. Towneley Myst. 115. To slepe aywhore.
1470. Harding, Chron., xcv. As myster was ay where.
