any

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See also: ǡny, -any, any%, and -ány

English

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Alternative forms

  • anie (obsolete)
  • anny (pronunciation spelling)

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈɛnɪ/
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈɛni/, (obsolete, dialectal and historical) /ˈæni/
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Ireland" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈæni/
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈɛni/
    • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "pin-pen" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈɪni/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛni, -æni
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. Homophone: innie (pin-pen)
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Ireland" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. Homophone: Annie

Adverb

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.'

Translations

Determiner

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.

Derived terms

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Pronoun

any

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

Translations

References

  • “any”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

any m (plural anys)

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

Derived terms

Further reading

Middle English

Etymology 1

Determiner

any

  1. Alternative form of ani

Etymology 2

Noun

any

  1. Alternative form of anoy

Etymology 3

Verb

any

  1. Alternative form of anoyen

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

Noun

any

  1. Alternative form of anũ

Descendants

  • Portuguese: ani

References

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

Yola

Adjective

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.

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 86
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