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1. a-, prefix3 View full entry 1673
...(No longer productive.) Forming verbs, adverbs, and prepositions, originally with the senses ‘on’, ‘on to’....
2. alder-, prefix View full entry ?a1160
...Prefixed to superlative adverbs with the sense ‘of all’, as alder-best, alder-first, alder-last, alder-most, etc. Usu. in cases where modern English uses an adverbial...
3. en-, prefix1 View full entry c1380
...Signification and uses. The applications of the prefix in French (Provençal, Spanish, Portuguese), and hence in English, are substantially identical with those of the Latin in-, which was used to...
4. non-, prefix View full entry a1420
...Prefixed to nouns of action, condition, or quality with the sense ‘absence or lack of’, often corresponding semantically to ‘not doing, failure to do’ (where a verb is implied by the noun,...
5. on-, prefix View full entry OE
...Compounds in which on- has adverbial force....
6. over-, prefix View full entry eOE
...In spatial and temporal senses, and in uses directly related to these....
7. pre-, prefix View full entry 1559
...Combinations in which pre- is adverbial or adjectival, qualifying the verb, adjective, or noun to which it is prefixed....
8. sur-, prefix View full entry c1482
... (Old) French sur-, earlier sour-, sor-, soure- (repr. Latin super), used in various senses of super-, as in ...
9. un-, prefix1 View full entry a1175
...Expressing negation. The prefix has been very extensively employed in English, as in the other Germanic languages, and is now the one which can be used with the greatest freedom in new...
