iamays
Appearance
Middle French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French jamés (“ever; never”), from Latin iam (“already”) with magis (“more”).
Adverb
[edit]iamays
- (with ne) never
- ever
- 1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 27:
- Et cellui me dist que ie le cherchasse se iamais y voulloye riens recouvrer
- And he said to me to look for him if ever I wanted to recover anything from there
Descendants
[edit]- French: jamais