everichon
Middle English
Alternative forms
- everchon, everechon, everich on, everychon, everychone
- everychoon, everyschon, evirichon (Late Middle English) eaver euchan (AB language)
- everilcan, everilc on (East Anglia, East Saxon); evrichen (Kent); everech on (Southern); everuchen, everuchon (West Midland)
- everilkan, ever-ilkan, everilkane, everilkon, ever-ilkone (Northern); evirilkane, evyrilkane, ewyre ilkayn (Early Scots)
Etymology
From everich, variant of every (“every”) + on (“one”); the loss of /t͡ʃ/ seen in every is avoided since it is protected by the following vowel of on.
The final syllable of Kentish Middle English evrichen may either reflect vowel reduction or a parallel formation from ene, enes (“once”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛv(ə)r(it͡ʃ ˌɔ̝ːn/, /ˈɛv(ə)ri(ː)ˌt͡ʃɔ̝ːn/
- IPA(key): /ˈɛv(ə)rilk ˌaːn/ (Northern)
Pronoun
everichon
- everyone, every one (every (single) person or thing)
- c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, line LINES:
- So hadde I spoken with hem everichon / That I was of hir felaweshipe anon,
- So had I spoken with them, every one, / That I was of their fellowship anon,
- each one (each person or thing)
Descendants
- English: everychone, every chone
- Middle Scots: everilkane
References
- “ē̆verich-ōn, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.