Anonymous ID: 34a120 March 28, 2021, 9:24 a.m. No.13315380   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5682 >>5816

Etymology of Ever

 

from Proto-Germanic aiwi-, extended form of PIE root aiw- "vital force, life; long life, eternity."

 

*aiw-

 

also *ayu-, Proto-Indo-European root meaning "vital force, life; long life, eternity."

 

It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit ayu- "life;" Avestan aiiu "age, life(time);" Greek aiōn "age, vital force; a period of existence, a lifetime, a generation; a long space of time," in plural, "eternity;" Latin aevum "space of time, eternity;" Gothic aiws "age, eternity," Old Norse ævi "lifetime," German ewig "everlasting," Old English a "ever, always."

 

https://www.etymonline.com/word/ever

 

https://www.etymonline.com/word/*aiw-