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1. after-, prefix View full entry eOE
...Combinations in which after- is adjectival or adverbial, and indicates that the second element refers to something that comes behind or afterwards, or an action that is performed later....
2. anti-, prefix1 View full entry 1559
...Combinations....
3. avaunt, adv., int., and prefix View full entry c1400
...Forward, to the front. Obs....
4. be-, prefix View full entry a1000
...Forming derivative verbs, with sense of ‘around’:...
5. ˈcounter-, prefix View full entry 1523
...verbs, as counteract, counter-make, countersay, counterweigh, counterwork, with their derivatives: which see in their alphabetic places. Also many nonce-words, either contextual,...
6. demi-, prefix View full entry 1480
...Used with the senses ‘half, half-sized, partial(ly), curtailed, inferior’....
7. fore-, prefix View full entry c1000
...In verbs, ppl. adjs., agent-nouns and nouns of action. (Stress on the verb.)...
8. hypo-, prefix View full entry c1540
...In words from Greek: the most important of these are hypochondria, hypocrisy, hypocrite, hypotenuse, hypothec, hypothesis, and their derivatives....
9. out-, prefix View full entry c1150
...Forming nouns....
10. post-, prefix View full entry 1578
...Forming words in which post- is either adverbial or adjectival, and qualifies the verb, or the verbal derivative or other adjective or noun which forms or is implied in the...
11. 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....
12. pro-, prefix1 View full entry 1645
...Chiefly as an etymological element. The following are the principal uses in Latin and English. (All words of this class appear as headwords.)...
13. semi-, prefix View full entry ?1550
...In general use....
14. sub-, prefix View full entry c1386
...In prepositional relation to the noun constituting or implied in the second element, with the sense ‘situated, existing, or occurring under, below, or at the bottom of’....
15. super-, prefix View full entry c1429
...Forming adjectives and nouns denoting a thing which is situated over, above, higher than, or (less commonly) upon another, and verbs expressing this relation....
16. † 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...
17. † umb-, prefix View full entry c1330
...App. ON. umb- (earlier form of um-um-), corresponding to Middle Low German and Middle High German umb-, Old English ymb-, ...
18. † 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...
19. up-, prefix View full entry a1200
...In comb. with ns. (except as in 3d3e)....
20. y-, prefix View full entry 1568
...The associative meaning is exemplified by two classes of words in Old English:...
