a-

Significado (Inglês)

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

Sinônimos

a

a

non-

-less

un-

im-

in-

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ə/

Etimologia (Inglês)

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-.