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Old Norse
Etymology
From aldri + -gi (“negative suffix”), the first part being the dative singular of aldr (“age, lifetime”), thus literally 'not in a lifetime'.
Adverb
aldrigi
- never
- Synonym: æva
Further reading
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “aldrigi”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive