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1. a-, prefix2 View full entry c1275
...(No longer productive.) Expressing completeness; = y-23....
2. for-, prefix1 View full entry c1200
...Forming verbs....
3. gain-, prefix View full entry a1225
...Against, in opposition to; Also gaincall, gaincope, gainsay, gainstand, gainstrive, gainturn...
4. sous-, prefix View full entry 1297
...representing Old French and modern French sous (:—Latin subtus) ‘under’, ‘sub-’, in a few words directly adopted from French....
5. to-, prefix1 View full entry a1250
...to used in combination with verbs, ns., adjs., and advbs. in the sense of motion, direction, or addition to, or as the mark of the infinitive: see in their alphabetical places,...
6. † um-, prefix View full entry a1300
...A reduced form of umb-, perh. directly ON. um- (Icelandic and Norwegian um-. Middle Swedish um-, om-, Swedish and Danish...
7. † umbe-, prefix View full entry c1200
...partly (in southern Middle English texts) representing Old English ymbe- (see umbe), but chiefly either an extended form of umb- (cf. umbe) or a...
8. wither-, prefix View full entry ?c1200
...In sense (1), used (esp. by Layamon) in compounds denoting hostile acts or contests, as wiþerblench, wiþerdeddeed, wiþergomegame, wiþerhap, wiþeruehtfight...
