any

英 ['en?] 美['?ni]

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any 任意的

an, 一。-y, 形容詞后綴。

any: any: [OE] Any is descended from a prehistoric Germanic compound meaning literally ‘one-y’ (a formation duplicated in unique, whose Latin source ūnicus was compounded of ūnus ‘one’ and the adjective suffix -icus). Germanic *ainigaz was formed from *ain- (source of English one) and the stem *-ig-, from which the English adjective suffix -y is ultimately derived. In Old English this had become ?nig, which diversified in Middle English to any and eny; modern English any preserves the spelling of the former and the pronunciation of the latter.
=> one
any (adj.): Old English ?nig "any, anyone," literally "one-y," from Proto-Germanic *ainagas (cognates: Old Saxon enig, Old Norse einigr, Old Frisian enich, Dutch enig, German einig), from PIE *oi-no- "one, unique" (see one). The -y may have diminutive force here.

Emphatic form any old ______ (British variant: any bloody ______) is recorded from 1896. At any rate is recorded from 1847. Among the large family of compounds beginning with any-, anykyn "any kind" (c. 1300) did not survive, and Anywhen (1831) is rarely used, but OED calls it "common in Southern [British] dialects."

2. Well, at any rate, let me thank you for all you did.: 好吧，不管怎樣，還是要感謝你所做的一切。

4. The room was quiet; no one volunteered any further information.: 房間很安靜，無人主動提供更多的信息。

5. Wash your hands thoroughly with hot soapy water before handling any food.: 在拿吃的之前，用熱肥皂水把手好好地洗干凈。