é-
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "e"
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French es-, from Latin ex-, ē-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Prefix
[edit]é-
Derived terms
[edit]Navajo
[edit]Prefix
[edit]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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *an-, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥-.
Prefix
[edit]é-
- Alternative form of an- (“un-, non-”)
Usage notes
[edit]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.[1]
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Irish: éa-
References
[edit]- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 872, page 544; reprinted 2017
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