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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. be-, prefix View full entry a1000
...Forming derivative verbs, with sense of ‘around’:...
3. fore-, prefix View full entry c1000
...In verbs, ppl. adjs., agent-nouns and nouns of action. (Stress on the verb.)...
4. 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....
5. inter-, prefix View full entry 1506
...In adverbial or adjectival relation to the second element....
6. 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,...
7. off-, prefix View full entry eOE
...Compounds of off...
8. on-, prefix View full entry OE
...Compounds in which on- has adverbial force....
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. semi-, prefix View full entry ?1550
...In general use....
13. 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’....
14. to-, prefix2 View full entry c1000
...With separative force: Asunder, apart, to or in pieces; also, away, about, abroad, here and there. Combined with verbs and derived adjs. and ns. The more important of these appear in their...
15. † 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...
16. 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...
17. up-, prefix View full entry a1200
...In comb. with ns. (except as in 3d3e)....
