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Etymology of any

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 Engli

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Unnumbered source etymology

Original entry ↗
det

One at all; at least one; at least one kind of; some; a positive quantity of. · A/an, each or some, no matter its/their identity or nature. · An unspecified but imminent (second, minute, day etc.).

pron

Any thing(s) or person(s).

adv

To even the slightest extent; at all. · Used before different, before comparatives with more and less, and idiomatically before other comparatives, generally in interrogative, hypothetical, or negative contexts. · Used to modify a verb, generally a finite verb or a non-finite verb in object position.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

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.

Relationships mentioned by the source

These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.

  • Inherited-form mentionanyenm
  • Inherited-form mentionǣniġang · any
  • Inherited-form mention*ainīggmw-pro
  • Inherited-form mention*ainagazgem-pro
  • Inherited-form mention*ainazgem-pro
  • Word-formation componentoneen
  • Word-formation component-yen
  • Cognate mentioneenichstq · some
  • Cognate mentioniennichfy · only
  • Cognate mentionenignl · any, some
  • Cognate mentionenigaf · any
  • Cognate mentioneinigde · some
  • Cognate mention*óynosine-pro
  • Cognate mentionūllusla
  • Cognate mentionūnicusla
  • Cognate mentionunicoit · unique
  • Cognate mentionuniquefr · unique
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      "name": "cog",
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      "name": "cog",
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      },
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    },
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      "name": "cog",
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      },
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    },
    {
      "name": "cog",
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    },
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      "name": "cog",
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        "1": "la",
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      },
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    },
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        "1": "it",
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      },
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    },
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      "name": "cog",
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        "1": "fr",
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      },
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