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French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French es-, from Latin ex-, ē-.
Pronunciation
Prefix
é-
- prefix indicating away, moving away from; sometimes used as an intensifier, for example in écru
Derived terms
Navajo
Prefix
é-
- (disjunct prefix of position I); postpositional prefix meaning “about”, “concerning”; is often found in contraction with ná- (“around”, reversionary) as (b)éé-, where it converges in shape with -í (“against”)
► Navajo terms prefixed with é- (postpositional)
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *an-, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥-.
Prefix
é-
- Alternative form of an- (“un-, non-”)
- é- + trom (“heavy”) → étrum (“light”, literally “unheavy”)
- é- + cubus (“conscience”) → écubus (“bad faith”, literally “non-conscience”)
- é- + cosmail (“like, similar”) → écsamail (“dissimilar, different”)
Usage notes
Used before c and t, which undergo eclipsis (nasalization) to be pronounced /ɡ/ and /d/. However, the basic form an- is also sometimes found in this context.
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