different between each vs severally

English

Etymology

From Middle English eche, from Old English ?l?, contraction of ??hwyl? (“each, every, any, all”), from Proto-Germanic *aiwô (“ever, always”) + *ga- + *hwil?kaz. Compare Scots ilk, elk (“each, every”), Saterland Frisian älk (“each”), West Frisian elk, elts (“each”), Dutch elk (“each”), Low German elk, ellik (“each”), German Low German elk, elke (“each, every”), German jeglich (“any”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /i?t??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /it??/
• Rhymes: -i?t?

Determiner

each

1. All; every; qualifying a singular noun, indicating all examples of the thing so named seen as individual or separate items (compare every).

Usage notes

• (all, every): The phrase beginning with each identifies a set of items wherein the words following each identify the individual elements by their shared characteristics. The phrase is grammatically singular in number, so if the phrase is the subject of a sentence, its verb is conjugated into a third-person singular form. Similarly, any pronouns that refer to the noun phrase are singular:

  Each candidate has 49 votes.

  Each voter must decide for herself.

Related terms

• each and every
• each other
• to each his own

Translations

Adverb

each (not comparable)

1. For one; apiece; per.

Translations

Pronoun

each

1. Every one; every thing.

Noun

each (plural eaches)

1. (operations, philosophy) An individual item: the least quantitative unit in a grouping.

Anagrams

• Aceh, Ache, Chae, Chea, HACE, ache, hace

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ech, from Proto-Celtic *ek?os, from Proto-Indo-European *h?é?wos (“horse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ax/

Noun

each m (genitive singular eich, nominative plural eacha)

1. (archaic) horse

Declension

Synonyms

• capall

Derived terms

• eachmairt
• eachra
• giolla eich (“horse-boy”)

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “ech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “ea?” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 272.
• Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 22.
• "each" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish ech, from Proto-Celtic *ek?os, from Proto-Indo-European *h?é?wos (“horse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?x/, /jax/

Noun

each m (genitive singular eich, plural eich)

1. horse
2. (dated) brute

Derived terms

• each-mara
• ruigidh each mall muileann

References

• “each” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “ech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian ?ge, from Proto-Germanic *augô, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?ek?- (“eye; to see”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???x/

Noun

each c (plural eagen, diminutive eachje)

1. eye

Further reading

• “each (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology

several +? -ly

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?v(?)??li/

Adverb

severally (not comparable)

1. separately
   • 1912, James Stephens, The Crock of Gold, New York: MacMillan, 1926, Book V, p. 229, [1]

     The policemen severally presented him with a pipe, a tin of tobacco, two boxes of matches and a dictionary, and then they withdrew leaving him to his own devices.

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter X, p. 162, [2]

     As it was, they were unable to discuss the details severally as they would have done had murder not become thus wholesale.

2. (Africa) Several times, repeatedly
   • 2012, Business Daily (Kenya), 12 November, 2012, [3]

     It tells them that those rules can be broken; and certainly they will break them, not once or twice but severally.

   • 2016, Nigeria Today, 29 April, 2016, [4]

     It was at the point of confronting Alaba, who had been warned severally along with other tenants, that Ogunyemi met her demise.

Synonyms

• (separately): See also Thesaurus:individually
• (repeatedly): again and again, over and over, over and over again, time and again