any

any

See also: ǡny, -any, any%, and -ány

Translingual

Etymology

English Anyin

Symbol

any

1. (international standards) language code for Anyin.

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English

Alternative forms

• anie (obsolete)
• anny (pronunciation spelling)

Etymology

From Middle English any, eny, ony, ani, aniȝ, eniȝ, æniȝ, from Old English ǣniġ (“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): /ˈɛnɪ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛni/, (obsolete, dialectal and historical) /ˈæni/
• (Ireland, Newfoundland) IPA^(key): /ˈæni/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛni/
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɪni/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɛni, -æni
• (US) Homophone: innie (pin-pen)
• (Ireland, Newfoundland, UK obsolete) Homophone: Annie

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.

   • 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 104:

     'That wouldn't surprise me any.'

Translations

at all

Chinese: Mandarin: 不再 (zh) (buzai), 一点 (zh) (yidian) Dutch: enig (nl), enkel (nl) Esperanto: iom ajn, eĉ iomete Finnish: yhtään (fi) French: du tout (fr) Italian: affatto (it) Portuguese: mais (pt) Scots: onie, ony Slovak: ešte Spanish: algo (es)

Determiner

any

1. (chiefly in the negative) One at all; at least one; at least one kind of; some; a positive quantity of.

   Do you have any biscuits?

   Do you have any food?

   I haven't got any money.

   It won't do you any good.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Matthew xi:27:

     No man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:

     In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess‎:

     Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.

2. No matter what kind.

   Choose any items you want.

   Any person may apply.

   Press any key to continue.

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:

     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.

   • 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.

Derived terms

• any and all
• any and every
• anybody
• any day
• any fule kno
• any hole's a goal
• anyhow
• any longer
• any minute now
• anymore, any more
• any nook or cranny
• any old
• anyone
• any other business
• anyplace
• any port in a storm
• any press is good press
• anyroad, any road
• anything
• anytime, any time
• any time now
• any time soon
• Anytown
• anyway, any way
• any way one slices it
• anywhat
• anywhen
• anywhence
• anywhere
• anywhither
• anywho
• anywhom
• anywise
• at any event
• at any given moment
• at any hand
• at any rate
• by any chance
• by any means
• by any stretch
• for any sake
• getting any
• in any case
• in any event
• just any
• know any better
• on any view
• with any luck

 

Translations

at least one (kind)

Arabic: أَيّ‎ (ar) (ʾayy) Egyptian Arabic: أي‎ (ʾay) North Levantine Arabic: ايا‎ (ayya), حيلا‎ (ḥayalla); شي‎ (ši) (some) Armenian: որևէ (hy) (orewē) Basque: edozein Belarusian: які́сьці (jakísʹci), які́сь (jakísʹ), які-не́будзь (jaki-njébudzʹ), не́йкі (njéjki), жа́дны (žádny) (with negative) Bulgarian: някакъв (njakakǎv), никакъв (nikakǎv), какъв да е (kakǎv da e), какъвто и да е (kakǎvto i da e), всякакъв (bg) (vsjakakǎv), малко (bg) (malko) Catalan: algun (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 任意 (zh) (rènyì), 任何 (zh) (rènhé) Dutch: enig (nl) Esperanto: iu (eo), iom da Estonian: iga (et), mistahes, suvaline, ükskõik milline, keegi (et) Finnish: yhtään (fi), jotakin (fi), mitään (fi) French: (with a negative particle) aucun (fr) German: (can be omitted); (interrogative or conditional; singular) irgendein (de); (interrogative or conditional; plural) irgendwelche (de); (negative) kein (de), überhaupt kein Greek: καθένας (el) (kathénas), όποιος (el) (ópoios) Hebrew: אַף‎ (he) (af), שׁוּם‎ (he) (shum) Hindi: कोई (hi) (koī), कोई भी (koī bhī) Ido: irga (io) (at all), ula (io) (some) Interlingua: ulle Italian: qualche (it) Korean: 어떤 (ko) (eotteon) Latin: ullus (la) Macedonian: некаков (nekakov), никаков (nikakov) (with negative) Maltese: xi, kwalunkwe Maore Comorian: (with a verb in a negative form) ata Marathi: कोणतेही (koṇtehī) Ngazidja Comorian: (with a verb in a negative form) hata Occitan: qualque (oc) Old English: ǣniġ Old High German: einag Polish: jakiś (pl) m, (with negative) żaden (pl) m Portuguese: algum (pt) Russian: како́й-нибудь (ru) (kakój-nibudʹ), никако́й (ru) (nikakój) (with negative) Scots: onie, ony Spanish: alguno (es) Slovak: nejaký m Tocharian B: ksa Ukrainian: яки́йсь (uk) (jakýjsʹ), жо́дний (with negative) Urdu: کوئی‎ (koī) Volapük: seimik (vo)

no matter what kind

Arabic: أَيّ‎ (ar) m or f (ʾayy) North Levantine Arabic: حيلا‎ (ḥayalla), ايا‎ (ayya) Belarusian: любы́ m (ljubý), уся́кі (usjáki), ко́жны (kóžny) Catalan: qualsevol m or f, qualssevol m pl or f pl Czech: kterýkoliv (cs) Esperanto: ia (eo), iu ajn Finnish: mikä tahansa (fi), kuka tahansa French: n'importe quel (fr), quelconque (fr) Georgian: ნებისმიერი (nebismieri), რაც არ უნდა იყოს (rac ar unda iq̇os) German: (singular) irgendein (de), jeder (de), jeglicher (de), jeder beliebige, jeder mögliche, welcher auch immer; (informal) egal welcher; (plural) irgendwelche (de), alle (de) Irish: aon (ga) Italian: qualsiasi (it) Japanese: 任意 (ja) (にんい, nin'i) Low German: German Low German: jeed, all (nds) Macedonian: било кој (bilo koj), секој (sekoj) Old English: ǣniġ Polish: którykolwiek (pl) m, jakikolwiek (pl) m, każdy (pl) m Portuguese: qualquer (pt) Romanian: orice (ro), oricare (ro), nici un, nici o Russian: любо́й (ru) (ljubój), -нибу́дь (ru) (-nibúdʹ), вся́кий (ru) (vsjákij), ка́ждый (ru) (káždyj) Scots: onie, ony Scottish Gaelic: aon, sam bith Slovak: akýkoľvek, ktorýkoľvek Spanish: cualquier (es), cualquiera (es) Swahili: yoyote Ukrainian: будь-яки́й (uk) m (budʹ-jakýj), ко́жний (uk) (kóžnyj), уся́кий (usjákyj) Walloon: tolminme ké (wa) m, nimpôrtu ké m

See also

• some
• anny

Pronoun

any

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

   Any may apply.

Translations

Any things or persons

Arabic: أَيّ‎ (ar) (ʾayy), كُلّ‎ (kull), أَيَّة‎ f (ʾayya), أَيْمَا‎ (ʾaymā) Bulgarian: кой да е (koj da e), който и да е (kojto i da e), всеки (vseki), някой (njakoj), никой (nikoj) Catalan: algun (ca), qualque (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 誰／谁 (zh) (shuí, shéi) Czech: kdokoliv (cs) (anyone), cokoliv (cs) (anything) Dutch: elk (nl) Esperanto: iu ajn, ĉiu (eo), ĉiuj (eo) Finnish: mikä tahansa (fi) Georgian: ნებისმიერი (nebismieri) German: jeder (de) m Japanese: どれも (doremo), どれでも (doredemo) Latin: ūllus (la) Low German: German Low German: jeed, elk Polish: ktokolwiek (pl) Portuguese: qualquer um Romanian: orice (ro) (anything), oricare (ro), oricine (ro) (anyone) Russian: любо́й (ru) (ljubój), вся́кий (ru) (vsjákij) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: свак m Roman: svak (sh) m Slovak: (anyone) ktokoľvek, (anything) čokoľvek Spanish: alguno (es) m, alguna (es) f Ukrainian: будь-хто́ (uk) (budʹ-xtó)

References

• any at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

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

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Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈaɲ/

• Audio (Valencian)

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• Rhymes: -aɲ

Noun

any m (plural anys)

1. year

   un home de 26 anys

   a 26-year-old man

   Quants anys tens?

   How old are you?

Derived terms

• anyet
• anyívol
• any llum
• anys i panys
• per molts anys
• qui dia passa, any empeny

 

Related terms

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

Further reading

• “any” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “any” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Middle English

Determiner

any

1. Alternative form of ani

Noun

any

1. Alternative form of anoy

Verb

any

1. Alternative form of anoyen

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Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ˈnɨ/

Noun

any

1. Alternative form of anũ

Descendants

• Portuguese: ani
  • English: ani

References

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

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Yola

Adjective

any

1. Alternative form of aany
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6:

     Yith w'had any lhuck, oor naame wode b' zung.

     If we had any luck, our name would have been sung.

References

• Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 86