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definition of the word a-

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From Old English ā-, originally ar-. Cognate with German er-.

• IPA: /ə/, SAMPA: /@/

a- no longer productive

1. forming verbs with the sense away, from, out, e.g. arise, await

A proclitic form of preposition a

• IPA: /ə/, SAMPA: /@/

a- no longer productive

1. in, on

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From Middle English variant form of y-, from Old English ġe-.

• IPA: /ə/, SAMPA: /@/

a- no longer productive

1. representing the Anglo-Saxon intensifying prefix, sometimes with little change in meaning, e.g. aware
   • The Twelve Days of Christmas:

     On the sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me.

     Six geese a-laying

From Anglo-Norman a-, from Old French e-, from Latin ex-.

• IPA: /ə/, SAMPA: /@/

a- no longer productive

1. forming words with the sense of wholly, out, e.g. abash

From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) (ἀν- (an-) immediately preceding a vowel).

• IPA: /ə/, /eɪ/, SAMPA: /@/, /eI/

a-

1. Forming words denoting absence or lack, e.g. abyss, amoral, usually with stems beginning with consonants.
   • 1948 (revised 1952), Robert Graves, The White Goddess, Faber & Faber 1999, p. 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 [...].

• an-

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From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) (ἀν- (an-) immediately preceding a vowel).

a-

1. Prefix prepended to words to denote a negation, deprivation or absence of a property denoted by base word.

   • a- + socijalan → asocijalan
   • a- + simetrija → asimetrija
   • a- + brahija → abrahija

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From Old French, from Latin ad-.

a-

1. A prefix forming words, especially verbs, that denote entering a state, making progress toward a goal, or the like.

From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) (ἀν- (an-) immediately preceding a vowel); generalized from the many Latin borrowings using this prefix.

a-

1. a-, non-, -less.

• "a-" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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• ab-, abs-

From ab (“‘away from’”)

a-

1. away from

• used before consonants, but not usually not 'c' or 't'.

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From an earlier form ar-, from Germanic. Cognate with German er-.

• IPA: /ɑː/

ā-

1. forming words with the sense from, away, off, out, e.g. āniman

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