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Universally comes from Latin ūniversālis ‘universal’, from ūnus ‘one, single’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos ‘one’.

1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁óynos‘one’reconstructed
2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*oinos‘one’reconstructed
3. Old Latinc. 700–75 BCEoinos
4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEūnus‘one, single’
5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEversus
6. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEūniversus‘universal or universally’
7. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEūniversālis‘universal’
8. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600universel
9. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500universal‘all-encompassing, subject to everything and everyone’
10. Middle English, derivedc. 1150–1500universally‘en masse’
11. Englishearliest quotation 1813same form

Earlier history uncertain.