ge-

Betekenis

(morpheme) Used for forming the past participle.
(idiomatic,morpheme,obsolete) Forms perfective verbs from other verbs with a sense of completeness, or simply as an intensifier.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ɣə/

Etimologie

Inherited from Middle Dutch ge-, ghe-, from Old Dutch gi-, ge-, from Proto-West Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm. Cognate with German Low German ge-, Dutch Low Saxon ge-, German ge-, Old English ġe- (obsolete English y-, i-, a-), Gothic 𐌲𐌰- (ga-).