Compressed from Old English 'aefre aelc' (always each one) — a uniquely English word with no cognate in any other language.
Used to refer to all the individual members of a set without exception.
From Old English 'ǣfre ǣlc' (ever each, each one always), a phrase that was compressed into Middle English 'everich,' then further reduced to 'every.' The first element is 'ever' (Old English 'ǣfre,' always) and the second is 'each' (Old English 'ǣlc,' every one). So 'every' literally means 'ever-each' — each and every time, without