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Translingual

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Etymology

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English Anyin

Symbol

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any

  1. (international standards) language code for Anyin.

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)

Etymology

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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 to Saterland Frisian eenich (“some”), West Frisian iennich (“only”), Dutch enig (“any, some”), Afrikaans enig (“any”), German Low German enig (“some”), German einig (“some”), Italian unico (“unique”), French unique (“unique”). Piecewise doublet of unique.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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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, 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?
    I haven't got any money.
    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.
    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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Translations

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See also

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Pronoun

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any

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

Translations

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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

Derived terms

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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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