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单词 owhere
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owhereadv.

Forms:

α. Old English ahwar, Old English ahwer, Old English–early Middle English ahwær, Middle English awher, Middle English awhere.

β. Old English ohwær, Old English owhwær (rare), Old English Middle English oþer (transmission error), early Middle English eower (south-west midlands), early Middle English ohwa (probably transmission error), Middle English howher, Middle English owhar, Middle English owher, Middle English owhere, Middle English owhore.

γ. Old English awar, Old English–early Middle English awer, Middle English aware (northern), Middle English awr (northern), Middle English awre (northern), Middle English awro (northern).

δ. Old English–Middle English ower, Middle English onwar (transmission error), Middle English onwhar (transmission error), Middle English ouer, Middle English our, Middle English oure, Middle English ouwar, Middle English owar.

ε. early Middle English ouhwar, early Middle English owwhær ( Ormulum), early Middle English owwhar ( Ormulum), Middle English oȝwar, Middle English oȝwhere, Middle English ougher, Middle English oughere, Middle English oughwhere, Middle English ouȝware, Middle English ouȝwer, Middle English ouȝwere, Middle English ouȝwher, Middle English ougwhere, Middle English ouȝwhere, Middle English ouhwhere, Middle English ouwhar, Middle English ouwhare, Middle English ouwher, Middle English ouwhere, Middle English owghwer, Middle English owghwhere, Middle English owghwhore, Middle English owȝwhere.

ζ. Middle English auwhere (north midlands), Middle English awwhere (northern).

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: o adv., where adv. and conj.
Etymology: < o adv. + where adv. and conj. Compare nowhere adv., and later anywhere adv.; also aywhere adv., somewhere adv., everywhere adv., n., pron., and adj. Compare also owhither adv.The γ and δ forms reflect the loss in Old English of the initial -h- of the second element when it became intervocalic and the subsequent reduction of the vowel of the second element. The ε and ζ forms reflect transfer of the initial -h- of the second element to the first syllable and subsequent developments as in other words with a back vowel followed by the velar fricative.
Obsolete.
Anywhere.
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the world > space > place > here, there, etc. > [adverb] > anywhere
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α.
OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Josh. (Claud.) i. 18 Se man ðe wiðcwyð ðinum bebodum ahwar, beo he deaðes scyldig.
OE Paris Psalter (1932) lxi. 6 Ne mæg ic hine ahwær befleon.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1120 Feawa heora lichaman ahwær syððan fundena wæron.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 6585 If mi fot wold awher go.
β. OE Beowulf 1737 Ne gesacu ohwær ecghete eoweð.c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6921 Ȝiff þeȝȝ himm owhar wisstenn.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 8231 Ȝif ich hine mai eower [c1300 Otho owha] ifon..he beð for-don.1483 W. Caxton in tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 395/2 The beste grasse and herbys that is owhere.γ. eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Otho) vii. 17 [Habbe] ic þe awer benumen þinr[a gifena]?a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) 1837 (MED) Þe heiest montayn þat was aware [a1400 Trin. Cambr. owhore; a1400 Vesp. our-quare; a1400 Fairf. awre-quare], Þe flod ouer ras seuen elne and mare.a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 127 (MED) Se ye awre of mak now?δ. OE Beowulf 2870 He on ealubence oft gesealde healsittendum helm ond byrnan..swylce he þrydlicost ower feor oððe neah findan meahte.c1330 Lai le Freine in Smith Coll. Stud. Mod. Langs. (1929) 10 iii. 1 (MED) When kinges miȝt our yhere of ani meruailes..þai token an harp in gle & game & maked a lay.c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 767 (MED) Y ȝylde me her to Charlis kyng, þe beste knyȝt y-core Þat is owar now lyuyng.a1450 Rule St. Benet (Vesp.) (1902) 1540 Who so wil..not trewly do þer trauayle In kechin..brewhows, or ourels [= owher els].ε. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6509 Herode king Bad affterr þeȝȝre come. To witenn ȝiff þeȝȝ haffdenn crist Owwhar onn eorþe fundenn.c1300 Holy Cross (Laud) 280 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 9 (MED) Þat holie treo was fairest þo þat huy miȝten ouȝwere [a1325 Corpus Cambr. awer; c1390 Vernon owhere; c1300 Harl. owar] i-seo.a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 262 If a man have al bileve þat Goddis lawe techiþ ouwher [v.r. owȝwhere].a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 1373 (MED) Shal a pore man owgh-whore Putte him a riche man bifore?ζ. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 30 (MED) To þat syȝt seche schal he never Þat any unclannesse hatz on, auwhere abowte.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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