In verbs the prefix denotes (a) intensive or completive action or process, or (b) action that miscarries, turns out for the worse, results in failure, or produces adverse or opposite results. In……
(a) In several nouns: an-sene appearance, an-velt anvil, an-wald power; (b) in the adj. an-lich 'like, similar' and its derivatives anlicnesse & anlicni.
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(a) In words inherited from OE: an-biden, an-elen kindle; (b) in words not attested in OE with this prefix, but occurring in early ME up to c1225: an-belȝen, an-bursten; also an-ēlen kindle, an-hongen……
A derivational prefix appearing in all parts of speech except pronouns, but most frequently in verbs. It is found in words descended from OE: (verbs) onblowen, onbrirden, onhauien, onheven [see……
Prefixed to participles and nouns to denote several of the meanings of for(e- pref., especially action 'in advance of' (L 'prae-'), but also action 'on behalf of' (L 'pro-' and English for prep.). So……
A prefix in well over 200 verbs and participles, thirteen gerunds usu. derived from the verbs, and eleven nouns. The prefix has two primary meanings
(a) In the great majority of the verbs and gerunds……
(a) Middle, mid-; mid strem, the middle of the stream; mid theigh (leg), the middle of the thigh (leg); in the mid se (sheld), in the middle of the sea (shield); in the mid side, ?in the middle; to……
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) In front of, opposite, facing toward; ayen- coupen, intercept (sb.), stop, turn back; ayen- couping, act of blocking or intercepting; also, resistance; ayen- louken, bar the way to (sb.); ayen-……
A prefix in words derived primarily from L, occ. from OF, or from both, often with its original meaning still discernible: (a) 'subordinate or inferior in rank' (in nouns): subcelerer,……
