an-2

    an-2

    English meaning: there, on the other side

    Deutsche Übersetzung: Demonstrativpartikel “dort, andererseits”

    Material: Gk. ἄν “ probably, possibly, in any other trap “ (ἐάν from εἰ ἄν, Ion. ἤν from *ἠ ἄν, ἄν from αἰ ἄν); Lat. an “ conj.: in direct questions, or; in indirect questions, or whether “, secondarily interrogative particle, extended anne, O.Ir. an-d “ here “, Goth. an “ then, now “; Lith. an-gu “ or “, O.Pruss. anga-anga “ whether = or whether “. maybe Alb. (*ane) andej “there” : O.Ir. an-d “here” [rather common Alb. shift n > nd]. Thereof derived: ani̯os “ other “ in: O.Ind. anyá- “ other “, Av. anya-, ainya-, O.Pers. aniya- ds. compare above S. 26. anteros “other” (from second) in: maybe zero grade in Alb. (*anteros) ndërroj “change, alter”, ndërresë “change, the other thing”; O.Ind. ántara-, O.S.S. ändär “other”, Goth. anÞar ds., O.Ice. annarr “other, second”, O.H.G. andar, O.E. ōÞer “other”, O.Pruss. anters, antars (*antras) “other, second”, Lith. añtras, Ltv. ùotrs beside Lith. añtaras, E.Ltv. ũtors ds., Slav. *ǫterъ, *ǫtorъ in Cz. úterū m. “ Tuesday “, O.Sor. wutory “other, second”. About O.C.S. vъtor-ъ ‘second” s. u̯i- “ asunder, apart “.

    Note: It seems Root an-2 : “there, on the other side” is a zero grade of the extended Root al-1, ol- : “besides; other” into *alny-, *any-. Maybe zero grade in Alb. (*nyátra) tjetër “other” [common Alb. n > nt > t phonetic mutation] : O.Ind. anyátra ‘somewhere else”. Perhaps Alb. dial. (*anter) jatër, jetër, Alb. [ attribute të “of” + anter], tjetër “other, second”; similar to formation in Alb.Gheg (*të mel = of milk) tamli “milk” where të is the Alb. attribute particle. Initial Alb. j- seems to have substituted the old laryngeal form ḫ-.

    References: WP. I 56, 67, II 337, WH. I 44, Trautmann 10/11, Debrunner REtlE. 3, 1 ff.