every

every
\ \ [OE] Stripped down into its component parts, every means literally ‘ever each’. It was originally an Old English compound made up of ǣfreever’ and ǣlc____________each’, in which basically the ‘ever’ was performing an emphasizing function; in modern English terms it signified something like ‘every single’, or, in colloquial American, ‘every which’. By late Old English times the two elements had fused to form a single word.
\ \ Cf.EACH, EVER

Word origins - 2ed. . 2005.

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