English
everything
Everything comes from Middle English every thing.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500every thing
- Englishearliest quotation 1859everything
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500every thing
- Englishearliest quotation 1859everything
Earliest quotation: 1859, Charles Dickens, The Ghost in Master B’s Room: “Then, I was sent to a great, cold, bare,…”
Every English word from Middle English every thing
Today it means
pron All the things under discussion.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English every thing / everything