Some of them are now analyzed as ordinary adverbs, including the following: always (from all way) afterwards, towards, and so on (from their counterparts in -ward, which historically were adjectives) once, twice, and thrice (from the roots of one, two, and three) hence, thence, and whence (related to the roots of here, there, and where) Some words were formed from the adverbial genitive along with an additional parasitic -t: amidst (from amid) amongst (from among) midst (from mid) whilst (from while) The adverbial genitive also survives in a number of stock phrases; for example, in "I work days and sleep nights", the words days and nights are analyzed as plural nouns but are in fact derived historically from the genitive or instrumental cases of day and night.
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