'everbearing' originates from Old English elements: 'ever' (from Old English 'ǣfre') meaning 'always' or 'ever', and 'bearing' from the verb 'bear' (Old English 'beran') meaning 'to carry' or 'to produce'.

'everbearing' is a compound formed in English by combining 'ever' + present-participle/gerund form of 'bear' ('bearing'). The components trace back to Old English ('ǣfre' and 'beran') and were joined in Modern English usage to describe plants that 'always bear' or repeatedly produce.

Initially the parts meant 'always' ('ever') and 'to carry/produce' ('bear'); combined, the compound came to mean 'producing (fruit/flowers) continuously' and has retained that horticultural sense in modern usage.