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Proto-Indo-European *ís?

Proto-West Germanic *ain

Old English ān

Middle English an

Middle English another

English another

From Middle English another. By surface analysis, an +‎ other.

another

  1. One more further, in addition to the quantity by then; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.
    Yes, I'd like another slice of cake, thanks.
    • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:
      Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].
  2. Not the same; different.
    Do you know another way to do this job?
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
  3. Any or some other, similar in likeness or in effect, instead.
    One gold ingot is valued the same as another, but gemstones are valued individually.

one more, in addition to a former number

not the same; different

any or some

another

  1. An additional one of the same kind.
    This napkin fell to the floor, could you please bring me another?
    There is one sterling and here is another
  2. One that is different from the current one.
    I saw one movie, but I think I will see another.
    I've thought about moving to another city at one time or another.

at one time or another

  1. One of a group of things of the same kind.
    His interests keep shifting from one thing to another.

  2. ^ Brians, Paul (19 May 2016), “a whole ’nother. Common Errors in English Usage and More”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[1], Washington State University, retrieved 30 December 2019: “It is one thing to use the expression “a whole ’nother” as a consciously slangy phrase suggesting rustic charm and a completely different matter to use it mistakenly.”

Compound of an +‎ other, appearing as a single word starting from the 13th or 14th century.

another

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