a-

Signification (Anglais)

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

Synonymes

a

a

non-

-less

un-

im-

in-

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ə/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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-.