an-4, anu, anō, nō

    an-4, anu, anō, nō

    English meaning: a preposition ("along a slanted surface, etc.")

    Deutsche Übersetzung: under likewise, Präposition, etwa “an einer schrägen Fläche hin, hinan”

    Note: (compare the summary by Brugmann Grdr. II2 2, 798 f., also about the syntactic).

    Material: Av. ana, O.Pers. anü (Urar. *ana or *anü) “about there” (m. acc. or instr.), “ along, on “ (m. acc.), Av. anu, O.Pers. anuv “ after, according to; up there “ (m. acc.), “ lengthwise, along “ (m. loc.), also preverb; maybe Alb. anës “along” O.Ind. ánu “ after (timewise m. acc., Аbl., gen.), after (order), after there, along, behind, according to, with regard to, against “ (m. acc.), adv. “ on it (auslaut-u appears to be comparable in Lesb. Thess. ἀπύ beside Att. ἄπό. Against Wackernagels explanation from IE *enu “ along, according to “ see WH. I 677; to-u see under ap-u); Arm. am- in am-baṙnam ham-barnam “ I raise, uplift “, ham-berem “ I endure “ maybe from -an (the h by mixture with a borrowed sound from the Pers. ham- “ together “; Ion.-Att. ἄνα, ανά “ on, upwards, along “, Dor. böot. ark. Cypr. ἀν, Lesb. Thess. ark., z. Part Cypr. ὀν, isolates ark. Cypr. ὐν (from ὀν) ds. (the monosyllabic form appears the original and to be extended ἀνά only after κατά; compare Schwyzer Gk. I 622; it is likely according to Schwyzer Gk. I 275 ὀν originated from ἀν; adv. ἄνω “ upward, up “; A Lat. remainder appears an-hēlō “ breathes strongly and with difficulty “ (an + *anslō); Umbr. an-, (with en “in” become synonymous and with it alternately, hence, en-tentu beside:) an-tentu “intendito”, anseriato “observatum”, anglar “oscines” (*an-klü to clamo) etc Maybe here O.Ir. an-dess “ from the south “ etc; Goth. ana (m. dat. mid acc.) “on, in, against, because of, about “, O.N. ü adv. and preposition m. dat. and acc. “on, in “, m. dat. “on, in, up, by “, m. acc. “ after, up, on, against “, O.S. an, O.E. on, O.H.G. aua, an, Ger. an (*ana or *anō, *anē ) preposition m. dat. and acc. and instr. “ on, up, in, to, against “; maybe zero grade in Alb. (*ana) në “ on, in “. Lith. anóte, anót m. gen. “ accordingly, according to “; about the first on Proto-Slav. *on going back to Slav. vъ(n)- “ in, on “ see Brugmann Grdr. II2 2, 828 and *en “in”. With zero grade of the first syllable, thus initial sound n: Lith. nuõ m. gen. “ from down, from away “ (these where from meaning only from the connection with the ablative originated anew), as a Nominal pref. nuo-, as a Verbal pref. nu- (prokLith. abbreviation as in pri- beside priẽ), Ltv. nùo m. gen. “ from”, as prefix nuo-; O.Pruss. no, na m. acc. “ on (where), against, about there “, as prefix “ after; from away “ (see also BezzenbergerKZ. 44, 304); O.C.S. na m. acc. and loc. “ on there; up, on, in “ (in addition after prě : prě-dъ neologism na-dъ “ upside, above, about “ m. acc. and instr. and preverb); O.Ind. nü- perhaps in nüdhitá “ pressed “, see below nü- “ help “. Here presumably Lith. -na, -n “ in (direction where) “, postal position with verbs of the movement, Av. na-zdyah-, O.Ind. nḗ dīyas- “ closer “(“ * moved near “); root sed- “ sit “; presumably similarly Goth. nēƕ, O.H.G. nüh adv. “ near” as “ looking near, turned near “ (with root oqʷ- as 2nd part); see Brugmann Grdr. II2 2, 798 f., where also about the ambiguous O.Ind. ádhi “ about, on”, ap. adiy “in” (*-n̥dhi or *edhi, *odhi?). maybe Alb. (*nüh) nga “from” [common Alb. n > ng shift] About Goth. anaks adv. “ suddenly, straight away “, supposedly to O.Bulg. naglъ “ suddenly, abruptly “ (?), s. Feist 42.

    References: WP. I 58 f., WH. I 43 f., 49, 677, Feist 41 a, 373, Trautmann 200.