a-

Significado (Inglés)

  1. (idiomatic, morpheme) Forming verbs with the sense away, up, on, out.
  2. (idiomatic, morpheme) Forming verbs with the sense of intensified action.

Frecuencia

C1
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ə/
Etimología (Inglés)

In summary

From Middle English a- (“up, out, away”), from Old English ā-, originally *ar-, *or-, from Proto-West Germanic *uʀ-, from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out-”), from Proto-Indo-European *uds- (“up, out”). Cognate with Old Saxon a-, German er-.

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