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1. afore-, prefix View full entry c1330
...Of time. (See also aforyen, afornon)...
2. dia-, prefix2 View full entry 1362
...in medical terms. In Greek such phrases as διὰ καρύων, διὰ κωδειῶν, διὰ μίσυος, διὰ μόρων, διὰ τριῶν πεπερέων, διὰ τεσσάρων...
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. ex-, prefix1 View full entry 1398
...repr. Latin ex-, the prep. ex (see ex) in combination....
5. 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’....
6. † 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-, ...
7. under-, prefix1 View full entry a1382
...representing Old English under-, = Old Saxon undar-, Old High German untar-, ON. undir-, etc. (see under). In Old English about eighty...
