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Czech
Prefix
od-
- a prefix, usually indicating movement away, detachment or separation
Derived terms
Further reading
- od-/ode- in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017
Ojibwe
Prefix
od-
- Alternative form of o-
Usage notes
od- appears before stems that begin with the vowels a, aa, e, i, and oo.
See also
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *ud-, from Proto-Indo-European *úd.
Prefix
od-
- Alternative form of uss- found before stops
Further reading
- Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 299
Old Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *otъ-.
Pronunciation
Prefix
od-
- indicates movement away; away
- od- + ić → odejć
- indicates repetition of some process; re-
- od- + sypać → odsypać
- indicates returning an action to someone; back
- od- + dać → oddać
Derived terms
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish od-, from Proto-Slavic *otъ-. Compare Old English ed-.
Pronunciation
Prefix
od-
- indicates undoing some process; un-
- Synonym: roz-
- od- + łączyć → odłączyć
- indicates repetition of some process; re-
- Synonyms: prze-, re-
- od- + budować → odbudować
- indicates returning an action to someone; back
- od- + dzwonić → oddzwonić
- indicates a routine or ritual activity
- indicates movement away; away
- Antonym: do-
- od- + iść → odejść
Derived terms
Further reading
- od- in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *otъ-. Prefixed form of the preposition od.
Pronunciation
Prefix
od-
- Forms perfective verbs with the following meanings:
- away, off
- od- + īti (“to go”) → odíti (“to go away”)
- to finish, to complete, to the end
- od- + večẹ̑rjati (“to dine”) → odvečẹ̑rjati (“to finish dinner”)
- od- + igráti (“to play”) → odigráti (“to play to the end”)
- un-, de-
- od- + vẹ́zati (“to tie”) → odvẹ́zati (“to untie”)
- back, in response
- od- + pisáti (“to write”) → odpisáti (“to write back”)
Derived terms
Ye'kwana
Variant orthographies
ALIV
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Brazilian standard
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New Tribes
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Pronunciation
Prefix
od-
- (Cunucunuma River dialect) Alternative form of odh-