owher

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English āhwǣr (“everywhere; somewhere; anywhere”).

Adverb

owher

1. anywhere
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     And if he foond owher a good felawe,
     He wolde techen him to have noon awe
     In swich caas of the ercedekenes curs

     And if he found anywhere a good fellow,
     He would teach him to have no awe
     Of the archdeacon's curse [of excommunication] in such a case,

References

• “owher”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.