ajn
Esperanto
Etymology
Borrowed from German ein, as in irgendein.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ajn]
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Particle
ajn
- used with ki- and i- correlatives to generalize them, meaning -ever/-soever or any/at all
- kio (“what”) → kio ajn (“whatever”)
- kiu (“who”) → kiu ajn (“whoever”)
- ie (“somewhere”) → ie ajn (“anywhere”)
- io (“something”) → io ajn (“anything”)
- Li kredos kian ajn senkulpigon kiun iu ajn donos al li.
- He’ll believe whatever kind of excuse that anyone at all gives him.
- iu (“someone”) → iu ajn (“anyone”)
Derived terms
- ajna (“any at all”)
- ajne
- ajno (“anything at all”)
- ajnulo
Gutnish
Etymology
From Old Norse einn, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *óynos. Compare Icelandic einn, Faroese and Norwegian Nynorsk ein, Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian Bokmål en.
Numeral
ajn m (feminine ain, neuter ajtt)
- one; the cardinal number before tvair (“two”).
- accusative masculine singular of ajn
Derived terms
- ainkum
- ainmatte
- ajnmelä
- ajnnä
- ajnsnapä
- ajnstyding
- ajnsyl
- ajntreten
- ajnvarlihait
- ajnvittra
- ajnävitter
References
- Rietz, Johan Ernst, “AJN”, in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket [Swedish dialectal lexicon: a dictionary for the Swedish lects] (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 3
Westrobothnian
| < 0 | 1 | 2 > |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : ajn Ordinal : föösjt | ||
Alternative forms
- ejn
Etymology
From Old Norse einn, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *óynos. Compare Icelandic einn, Faroese and Norwegian Nynorsk ein, Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian Bokmål en.
Numeral
ajn m (feminine ain, neuter ajtt)
- one; the cardinal number before to (“two”).
- accusative masculine singular of ajn
Derived terms
- aaintj
- ainkä
- ajnlett
- ajnsinnt
- ajnträten
- ajnträtu
- ajnäten
- ajnögd
- einbett
- einkom
- einkömeli
- einkömmelä
- einskäs
- einstöding
- eintömd
- eintömeli
- eintömu
- ejnträten
- ena
- enfötingsgräs
- enkannerlit
- enkönnä
- ensk
- ensä
Pronoun
ajn
- one
References
- Rietz, Johan Ernst, “AJN”, in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket [Swedish dialectal lexicon: a dictionary for the Swedish lects] (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 3