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English

Etymology

any +? whence

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ??.n?.hw?ns, IPA^(key): /??n.?.??ns/

Adverb

anywhence (not comparable)

1. (formal, now rare) From anywhere.
   • 1671: Thomas Brancker, in Stephen Peter Rigaud’s Correspondence of Scientific Men of the Seventeenth Century, volume 1, page 167 (1841 publication)

     As soon as I receive it anywhence, you shall have it presently returned.

Related terms

References

• “†?anywhence, adv.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]

English

Alternative forms

• anie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English any, eny, ony, ani, ani?, eni?, æni?, from Old English ?ni? (“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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??n?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /??ni/, (dialectal) /?æni/
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /?æni/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??ni/
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /??ni/
• Rhymes: -?ni, -æni
• (US) Homophone: innie (pin-pen)

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.

Translations

Determiner

any

1. (chiefly in the negative) At least one; of at least one kind. One at all.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Matthew xi. 27

     No man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son.
2. No matter what kind.

   • 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.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• some

Pronoun

any

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

   Any may apply.

Translations

References

• any at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• AYN, Ayn, NAY, NYA, Nay, Yan, ayn, nay, yan

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin annus, from Proto-Italic *atnos, from Proto-Indo-European *h?et-no-, probably from *h?et- (“to go”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?a?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

any m (plural anys)

1. year

Derived terms

Related terms

• aniversari
• annals
• anual / anyal
• ninou
• perenne

Further reading

• “any” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.?n?/

Noun

any

1. Alternative form of an?

Descendants

• Portuguese: ani
  • English: ani

References

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