Etymology

anyone

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Today it means: Any person; anybody. Full definition →

Middle English eny on
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromeny on
  2. English todayanyone

From Middle English eny on, ony one. By surface analysis, any + one.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.