An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/immer

by Friedrich Kluge

immer, from the equivalent Middle High German imer, immer, earlier iemer, Old High German iomêr, ‘always’ (only of the present and future); Old High German iomêr is a compound of io (compare je) and mêr (see mehr); compare Anglo-Saxon œ̂fre (English ever), from *œ̂-mre (equivalent to Old High German io-mêr).