Category talk:English terms prefixed with de-

Why there is no word decease in this category? — This unsigned comment was added by 95.110.9.240 (talk).

• Because the word (deprecated template usage) decease is not de- + cease; it just happens to originate in a French word that that began with de. SemperBlotto (talk) 09:33, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

So how about “derange”? Same story? — Koaieus (talk) 01:56, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

The prefix was Old French des-, derived from Latin dis-. No de- at any stage in its history. Chuck Entz (talk) 05:45, 1 October 2020 (UTC)