Article

1. Indefinite article; used when the noun may refer to one of several possibilities. An egg could be any of several eggs, while the egg refers to a specific egg (already mentioned or known).

Usage notes

• The article is used before vowel sounds, and before consonant sounds.

Conjunction

1. If, so long as.

   An it please you, my lord.

Noun

1. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (mkhedruli), Ⴀ (asomtavruli) or ⴀ (nuskhuri).

Preposition

1. In each; to or for each; per.

   I was only going twenty miles an hour.

Usage notes

• This is the same as the word a in such contexts, modified because of preceding an unpronounced h. The train was speeding along at a mile a minute.