Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗prefix
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryForming verbs with the sense away, up, on, out. · Forming verbs with the sense of intensified action.
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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