a-
Meaning
- Forming verbs with the sense away, up, on, out.
- Forming verbs with the sense of intensified action.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ə/
Etymology
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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