Obs. Forms: 3–4 endir, -ur, 5 endyr, 3–5 ender. Also 5 endurs, endris, enderes, endyrs, Sc. andyrs. [app. a. or f. ON. endr adv., ‘formerly, else, again,’ corresp. to Goth. andiz-(uh) ‘either’ (conj.), and perh. to dial. Ger. ender, ehnder ‘before, sooner’; the OTeut. type *andiz is an adv. in the compar. deg. related to AND. It seems probable that ender-day, ender-night, were originally compounds of the adv., though a trace of adjectival flexion occurs in the ON. compound endra-nær ‘at some other time.’ The forms with final s are of obscure origin.]
Only in phrase, This ender day, night, year, indicating a day, etc., recently past.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 4561. Me thoght in drem, þis ender night, Þat i com in a medu slight. Ibid., 5672. Wil þou sla me als þou has slain Þis endir dai þe egypcian?
c. 1330. Arth. & Merl., 917. So Y slepe this ender-night Bi me lay a selcouthe wight.
1393. Gower, Conf., II. 381. This ender day as I gan fare.
c. 1400. Thomas of Erceldoune, 25 (Cambr. MS. c. 1450). As I me went þis Andyrs day [Thornton Endres daye, Lansd. this thender day], ffast on my way makyng my mone.
c. 1440. Ipomydon, 830. I am … the strange squyère, That servyd my lady this endris yere.
c. 1450. Guy Warw. (C.), 2828. He slewe my lordys sone þe emperowre This endurs day in a stowre.
a. 1450. Le Morte Arth., 1017. Thinke ye not on this endris day.
Hence Andersith adv. [OE. síð time, occasion], previously, beforetime.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 2110. Affrik … That andesith [Fairf. sum tide] was cald Libi. Ibid., 24268 (Gött.). Mi schepe er funden … Þat tint war andersith [Edinb. andersiþe].
