an

«an» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: a (before a vowel sound) — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

a (before a vowel sound)

part of speech

article (also an old word for "if")

meaning for a pupil

Used before a word that starts with a vowel sound, to mean one. tree →

how it differs from today

The old sense "if" does not appear in these sentences; they use "an" just as we do today.

examples

• And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel. (Torah GEN.33.20, JPS 1917) tree →
• He would think me an adventurer." (The Arabian Nights Entertainments) tree →
• Misery, or an evil end, or simply evil, ROH. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →

primary record

an

tests

manual 9; corpora 6120 (Torah 266, tales 5771, Sefer Yetzirah 83); EWT 499; ratio 0.7 (Torah alone 0.6); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
• Now Sarai Abram's wife bore him no children; and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
• And God was with the lad, and he grew; and he dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
• And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.
• And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «an» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.