any

• anie (obsolete)

From Middle English eny, from Old English ǣniġ, from Proto-Germanic *ainagaz, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”), equivalent to one +‎ -y. Cognate to Dutch enig (“any, some”), German einig (“some”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛnɪ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈæni/, /ˈɛni/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛni/
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɪni/

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• Rhymes: -ɛni
• (US) Homophone: innie (pin-pen)
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈæni/
• Rhymes: -æni

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!

   • 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.'

any

1. At least one; of at least one kind. One at all.

   do you have any biscuits?;  do you have any food?;  I haven't got any money;  it won't do you any good

   • Bible, Matthew xi. 27

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

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:

     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

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0108:

     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.

• some

any

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

   Any may apply.

• any at OneLook Dictionary Search

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

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

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

any m (plural anys)

1. year

   un home de 26 anys

   a 26-year-old man

   Quants anys tens?

   How old are you?

• anyet
• anys i panys

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

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

• IPA^(key): /a.ˈnɨ/

any

1. Alternative form of anũ

• Portuguese: ani
  • English: ani

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