an

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 187 words | Copyright

an1 reduced form of OE. ān ONE, due to loss of stress; now a var. of A1 retained before vowel sounds and sometimes before unstressed syllables having initial h (e.g. an historical).

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