ajn

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from German ein, as in irgendein.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ajn]

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• Hyphenation: ajn

Particle

ajn

1. 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)

1. one; the cardinal number before tvair (“two”).
2. 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