an

Meanings

1. 1
   det

   Form of a (all article senses).

   I'll be there in half an hour.

2. 2
   conj

   If

   […] An the worst fall that ever fell, I hope I shall make shift to go without him.

3. 3
   conj

   So long as.

   An it harm none, do what ye will.

4. 4
   conj

   As if; as though.

   At length did cross an Albatross, Thorough the Fog it came; And an it were a Christian Soul, We hail'd it in God's Name.

5. 5
   prep

   In each; to or for each; per.

   I was only going twenty miles an hour.

6. 6
   num

   one

7. 7
   noun

   The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri).

8. 8
   noun

   A set of sizes for screw threads agreed upon and jointly used by the United States Army and Navy.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-West Germanic *ain Old English ān Middle English an English an From Middle English an, from Old English ān (“a, an”, literally “one”). More at one.