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Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse ó-, ú-, from Proto-Germanic *un-, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥-, a prefix use of the particle *ne (“not”). In Faroese this changed very early from ú- to ó-.
Cognate with Old English un- (English un-), Old Saxon un-, Dutch on-, Old High German un- (German un-), Swedish o-, Norwegian u, and Gothic 𐌿𐌽- (un-). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-), ἀν- (an-), Latin in-, and Old Irish in-.
Prefix
ó-
- un-
Derived terms
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse ó-, ú-, from Proto-Germanic *un-, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥-, a prefix use of the particle *ne (“not”). In Icelandic this changed very early from ú- to ó-.
Cognate with Old English un- (English un-), Old Saxon un-, Dutch on-, Old High German un- (German un-), Swedish o-, Norwegian u, and Gothic 𐌿𐌽- (un-). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-), ἀν- (an-), Latin in-, and Old Irish in-.
Prefix
ó-
- un-, non-, in-
- ó- + friður (“peace”) → ófriður (“war”)
- ó- + heppni (“luck”) → óheppni (“bad luck”)
- ó- + þekkur (“well-behaved”) → óþekkur (“naughty”)
- ó- + happ (“a stroke of luck”) → óhapp (“accident”)
- ó- + samlína (“collinear”) → ósamlína (“noncollinear”)
Derived terms
See also
Old Norse
Etymology
See ú-.
Prefix
ó-
- Alternative form of ú-