A prefix or combining element in ten words of OE origin, chiefly nouns and adjectives, meaning 'two, double' or 'twice, doubly': the nouns twibil, twihinde, twinter (from the OE adjective), twirædniss……
A prefix in some forty words formed in ME, chiefly transitive verbs but with a smattering of participles and gerunds and one noun. The prefix has three main senses: (1) the primary sense of……
A prefix in at least forty-three words, chiefly transitive verbs but including six participles, three gerunds, six nouns, and three adverbs. Over half are either definitely or probably of OE origin……
An inseparable prefix in a very large number of words, usu. expressing simple negation, with the meaning ‘not’. It appears primarily with nouns, adjectives, adverbs, present and past participles, but……
An inseparable prefix in a large number of words, chiefly finite verbs (including especially their past participles) and their derivative gerunds and occasionally agent nouns. A few of the words are……
A prefix or combining element in over 200 words, nearly half of which are verbs (97) and over a quarter of which are nouns (58), with a number of participles (25) and gerunds (27), three adverbs, two……
A prefix or combining element in more than twenty words, chiefly nouns, borrowed from L or OF meaning ‘single, one’. As a discrete prefix, it is used in the nouns unanimite, unicorn(e, uniformite,……
A prefix or combining element in some 250 words, over sixty percent of which are verbs (153), with a number of nouns (36), gerunds (34), and participles (19) and a smattering of adjectives (4) and……
A quasi-prefix or combining element in two verbs and two present participles, usu. translating the L prefix super- or supra-. In three of the words the sense is ‘on top’ (uponsittinge ppl., uponwen……
A prefix in a small number of nouns (eight), the primary meaning of which, when attached to personal nouns indicating the holder of an office or a title, is ‘subordinate in rank’ or ‘acting as a……
A prefix in over 25 words, chiefly nouns but also a few adjectives, verbs, and gerunds, one adverb, and one participle. The prefix usu. expresses simple negation (with meanings such as ‘not’, ‘no’……
A prefix in over 100 words, of which more than half are verbs (62), with a number of nouns and gerunds (14 each), a few participles (5), adverbs (6), and prepositions (6), one adjective and one……
A prefix or combining element derived from OE appearing in four verbs and five participles or adjectives. The most common meaning is ‘in opposition, against’ (in the verbs witherholden, witherthreten,……
A prefix or combining element in eight words (three verbs and five past participles). Seven of these are loan translations of Latin words with the prefix in-: the verbs withinnechaungen,……
A prefix in two words, yegoinge ger., with the meaning ‘back to a place’ [cp. yen- pref. 1.(a)], and yebier n. [calqued on the Latin 'redemptor'; cp. ayẹ̄n-bīer(e n. and yẹ̄nbīer n.]
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‘Away, back’; specif. (a) ‘back to someone or a place’ and (b) ‘away from someone or something’: for (a), e.g., the nouns yencome, yenfare, yenrase, the verbs yencomen, yenpassen, and the gerunds……
