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1. 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...
2. out-, prefix View full entry c1150
...Forming nouns....
3. 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...
4. un-, prefix2 View full entry a1200
...expressing reversal or deprivation, representing Old English un-, on- (Middle English un-, rarely on-), = Old Frisian und-, unt-, ...
5. up-, prefix View full entry a1200
...In comb. with ns. (except as in 3d3e)....