a-
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ə/
- (no longer productive) forming verbs with the sense away, up, on, out
- arise, await
- (no longer productive) forming verbs with the sense of intensified action.
- abide, amaze
- IPA: /ə/
- (rare or no longer productive) in, on, at; used to show a state, condition, or manner. Also passing into sense 2. [First attested prior to 1150]
- apace, afire, aboil, a-bling
- (no longer productive) In, into. Also passing into sense 5. [First attested prior to 1150]
- asunder
- In the direction of, or toward. [First attested prior to 1150]
- astern, abeam
- (archaic, dialectal) At such a time. [First attested prior to 1150]
- Come a-morning we are going hunting.
- (archaic, dialectal) In the act or process of. Being conflated with the next definition, a- is used in some dialects to indicate any participle. [First attested prior to 1150]
- IPA: /ə/
- Obsolete form of y-. (archaic and dialectal) In dialect, it is sometimes conflated with sense 5 of the previous definition, and is used as a general indicator of a participle. [First attested around 1150 to 1350 (Middle English).]
- aware, alike
- IPA: /ə/
- (no longer productive) forming words with the sense of wholly, or utterly out [First attested from around 1150 to 1350.]
- abash
- (America) IPA: /ə/, /eɪ/
Not, without, opposite of. - amoral, asymmetry, atheism, asexual, acyclic, atypical
- 1948 (revised 1952), Robert Graves, The White Goddess, Faber & Faber 1999, page 7:
- When invited to believe in the Chimaera, the horse-centaurs, or the winged horse Pegasus, all of them straightforward Pelasgian cult-symbols, a philosopher felt bound to reject them as a-zoölogical improbabilities [...].
- (no longer productive) Towards; Used to indicate direction, reduction to, increase to, change into, or motion. [First attested from around 1150 to 1350.]
- ascend, aspire, amass, abandon, avenue
- (no longer productive) Away from. [First attested from around 1150 to 1350.]
- avert, aperient, abridge, assoil, assoilzie
- (no longer productive) Of, from. [First attested prior to 1150.]
- anew, afresh, athirst
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