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any

See also: ǡny, -any, any%, and -ány

TranslingualEdit

EtymologyEdit

English Anyin

SymbolEdit

any

  1. (international standards) language code for Anyin.

EnglishEdit

 
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Alternative formsEdit

  • anie (obsolete)
  • anny (pronunciation spelling)

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English any, eny, ony, ani, aniȝ, eniȝ, æniȝ, from Old English ǣniġ (“any”), from Proto-Germanic *ainagaz, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”), equivalent to one +‎ -y. Cognate to Saterland Frisian eenich (“some”), West Frisian iennich (“only”), Dutch enig (“any, some”), German Low German enig (“some”), German einig (“some”).

PronunciationEdit

AdverbEdit

any (not comparable)

  1. To even the slightest extent, at all.
    I will not remain here any longer.
    If you get any taller, you'll start having to duck through doorways!
    That doesn't bother me any. (chiefly US usage)
    • 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, →ISBN, page 58:
      I wasn't any too easy in my mind.
    • 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 104:
      'That wouldn't surprise me any.'

TranslationsEdit

DeterminerEdit

any

  1. (chiefly in the negative) One at all; at least one; at least one kind of; some; a positive quantity of.
    Do you have any biscuits?
    Do you have any food?
    I haven't got any money.
    It won't do you any good.
  2. No matter what kind.
    Choose any items you want.
    Any person may apply.
    Press any key to continue.
    • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.
    • 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
      Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.

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PronounEdit

any

  1. Any thing(s) or person(s).
    Any may apply.

TranslationsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • any at OneLook Dictionary Search

AnagramsEdit

CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin annus, from Proto-Italic *atnos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂et-no-, probably from *h₂et- (“to go”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

any m (plural anys)

  1. year
    un home de 26 anys
    a 26-year-old man
    Quants anys tens?
    How old are you?

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Middle EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

DeterminerEdit

any

  1. Alternative form of ani

Etymology 2Edit

NounEdit

any

  1. Alternative form of anoy

Etymology 3Edit

VerbEdit

any

  1. Alternative form of anoyen

Old TupiEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

any

  1. Alternative form of anũ

DescendantsEdit

  • Portuguese: ani

ReferencesEdit

  • Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida; 2013; Dicionário do Tupi Antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil; São Paulo: Global.

YolaEdit

AdjectiveEdit

any

  1. Alternative form of aany
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6:
      Yith w'had any lhuck, oor naame wode b' zung.
      If we had any luck, our name would have been sung.

ReferencesEdit

  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 86
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