Brewer's: Adays

Nowadays, at the present time (or day). So in Latin, Nunc dierum and Nunc temporis. The prefix “a” = at, of, or on. Simularly, anights, of late, on Sundays. All used adverbially.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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