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1. a-, prefix1 View full entry
...With verbs, implying motion onward or away from a position; hence (originally with verbs of motion) adding intensity....
2. a-, prefix2 View full entry c1275
...(No longer productive.) Expressing completeness; = y-23....
3. a-, prefix3 View full entry 1673
...(No longer productive.) Forming verbs, adverbs, and prepositions, originally with the senses ‘on’, ‘on to’....
4. a-, prefix4 View full entry
...(No longer productive.) Forming compounds with nouns, verbs, and adjectives, originally with the senses ‘away’, ‘off’, ‘from’, ‘of’....
5. a-, prefix5 View full entry
...(Not productive in English.) Forming verbs and adjectives (and their derivatives), expressing addition or increase, or bringing into a state....
6. a-, prefix6 View full entry
...Forming nouns and adjectives, with the sense ‘without’; ‘not’; ‘-less’....
7. ab-, prefix View full entry
...In combinations already formed in Latin and freq. maintained through Old French, as abhor, or adapted or formed in later French, as abscond, absorb, or adapted...
8. ac-, prefix View full entry
...= ad-....
9. ad-, prefix View full entry
...In combinations formed in Latin and transmitted through Old or later French, as adapt, adduce, address, or adapted or formed in English, as admix,...
10. af-, prefix View full entry
...= ad-....
11. afore-, prefix View full entry c1330
...Of time. (See also aforyen, afornon)...
12. 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....
13. al-, prefix2 View full entry
...(Not productive in English.) Forming nouns of Arabic origin, as alcohol, Alcoran, alcove, algebra, alkali, almanac, etc....
14. 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...
15. ambi-, prefix View full entry 1894
...repr. Latin ambi- both, on both sides (ambo both), in various (chiefly scientific) terms (see words in ambi-)....
16. amphi-, prefix View full entry 1842
...Used in many derivatives and compounds....
17. an-, prefix1 View full entry
...(No longer productive.) Forming verbs, adverbs, and prepositions, originally with the senses ‘on’, ‘on to’....
18. an-, prefix2 View full entry
...Forming nouns and adjectives, with the sense ‘without’; ‘not; ‘-less’....
19. ana-, prefix View full entry
...repr. Greek ἀνά ‘up, in place or time, back, again, anew,’ in derivatives from Greek, through late or medieval Latin and French, and in mod. words from Greek direct....
20. † and-, prefix View full entry
...(No longer productive.) Forming nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and verbs with the senses ‘against, opposite, in reply, in return’. Also in verbs expressing reversal....
