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Translingual

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Etymology

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Clipping of English Anyin.

Symbol

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any

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Anyi.

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English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
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Alternative forms

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  • anie (obsolete)
  • anny (pronunciation spelling)
  • ony (dialectal, Geordie)

Etymology

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ís?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Indo-European *h₁oy-no-kós
Proto-Germanic *ainagaz
Proto-West Germanic *ainag
Old English ǣniġ
Middle English ani
English any

    From Middle English any, eny, ony, ani, aniȝ, eniȝ, æniȝ, from Old English ǣniġ (“any”), from Proto-West Germanic *ainīg, *ainag, from Proto-Germanic *ainagaz, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”), equivalent to one +‎ -y.

    Cognate with Saterland Frisian eenich (“some”), West Frisian iennich (“only”), Dutch enig (“any, some”), Afrikaans enig (“any”), German Low German enig (“some”), German einig (“some”); via Proto-Indo-European *óynos cognate with Latin ūllus (“any”), Latin ūnicus (whence Italian unico (“unique”), French unique (“unique”)). Piecewise doublet of unique.

    Pronunciation

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    Particularly: "pin-pen merger & Ireland/Newfoundland"

    Adverb

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    any (not comparable)

    1. To even the slightest extent, at all.
      If you get any taller, you'll start having to duck through doorways!
      That doesn't bother me any. (chiefly US usage)
      You don't seem to be any the worse after such a tragic experience.
      I will not remain here any longer.
      • 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, Bantam, published 1992, →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

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    Determiner

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    any

    1. (chiefly in the negative or interrogative, chiefly with plural or uncountable nouns) One at all; at least one; at least one kind of; some; a positive quantity of.
      Antonyms: zero, no
      Hyponyms: (countable) one; a few, a couple of, a handful of, several; multiple, various; a lot of, many, numerous; countless; (uncountable) a little, much
      Near-synonym: some
      Do you have any biscuits?
      Do you have any food?
      Do you think there's any point to/in trying to explain?
      It won't do you any good.
      "Give me your pen." — "I don't have any pen."
    2. A/an, each or some, no matter its/their identity or nature.
      Choose any item you want.
      Any person may apply.
      Representative democracy is better than any other system.
      Press any key to continue.
      The character '#' matches any digit 0–9.
      Please bring some plates — any plates will do.
      I'll drink any whiskey you've got.
      • 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.
      • 2006 February, Chuck White, Developing Killer Web Apps with Dreamweaver MX and C#, Wiley, page 269:
        [a-z]: A range of characters that matches any character in the specified range. For example, [a-z] matches any lowercase alphabetic character in the range a through z.
      • 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.
    3. (with time designations) An unspecified but imminent (second, minute, day etc.).
      They'll be arriving any day.
      I expect the phone to ring at any moment.

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    Pronoun

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    any

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

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    References

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    • “any”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

    Anagrams

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    Catalan

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    Etymology

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

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    any m (plural anys)

    1. year
      un home de 26 anys ― a 26-year-old man
      Quants anys tens? ― How old are you?
      Bon any nou! ― Happy new year!
      Avui faig anys ― Today is my birthday

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    Further reading

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    Middle English

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    Etymology 1

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    Determiner

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    any

    1. alternative form of ani

    Etymology 2

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    Noun

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    any

    1. alternative form of anoy

    Etymology 3

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    Verb

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    any

    1. alternative form of anoyen

    Old Tupi

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    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    any

    1. alternative form of anũ

    References

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

    Yola

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    Adjective

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    any

    1. alternative form of aany
      • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 86:
        Yith w'had any lhuck, oor naame wode b' zung,
        If we had any luck, our name would have been sung

    References

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    • 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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