owher
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Middle English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English āhwǣr (“everywhere; somewhere; anywhere”).
Adverb[edit]
owher
- anywhere
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- And if he foond owher a good felawe,
He wolde techen him to have noon awe
In swich caas of the ercedekenes curs- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References[edit]
- “owher”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.