a-
前缀
英 /eɪ/
美 /eɪ/|/æɪ/
英文释义
前缀
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Forming verbs with the sense away, up, on, out.
— arise, await
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In, on, at; used to show a state, condition, or manner. Also passing into sense 2.
— aglow, apace, afire, aboil, a-bling, abluster
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Alternative form of y-. In dialect, it is sometimes conflated with sense 5 of the previous definition, and is used as a general indicator of a participle.
— aware, alike
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Forming words with the sense of wholly, or utterly out.
— abash
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Not, without, opposite of.
— amoral, asymmetry, atheism, asexual, acyclic, atypical
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Towards; Used to indicate direction, reduction to, increase to, change into, or motion.
— ascend, aspire, amass, abandon, avenue
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Away from.
— avert, aperient, abridge, assoil, assoilzie
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Of, from.
— anew, afresh, athirst
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Alternative form of -a (“empty syllable added to songs, poetry, verse and other speech”).
— A-tisket a-tasket, A green and yellow basket
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Used as a prefix to verbs in the sense of remaining in the same condition. Actively doing something.
— a-be, a-goingLet that child alone, will you.
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Forming verbs with the sense of intensified action.
— abide, amaze
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In, into. Also passing into sense 5.
— asunder
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Used to form the past participle of a verb.
— I have a-gone.
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In the direction of, or toward.
— astern, abeam
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At such a time.
— Come a-morning we are going hunting.
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In the act or process of. Used in some dialects before a present participle.
— hits a-poppin
词形变化
词源
词源 1
From Middle English a- (“up, out, away”), from Old English ā-, originally *ar-, *or-, from Proto-West Germanic *uʀ-, from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out-”), from Proto-Indo-European *uds- (“up, out”). Cognate with Old Saxon a-, German er-.
词源 2
From Middle English a- (“on”), derived from unstressed Middle English an (“on”), from Old English an (“on”). See a (preposition, on, to, in, etc.)
词源 3
From Middle English a-, a variant form of y-, from Old English ġe-, from Proto-West Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“with”).
词源 4
From Anglo-Norman a-, from Old French e-, from Latin ex-.
词源 5
From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-), preconsonantal form of ἀν- (an-). Distant doublet of un-.
词源 6
Assimilated form of ad- before b, sc, sp, st, and sometimes m. From Middle English a-, from Middle French a-, from Latin ad (“towards”).
词源 7
From Latin ab (“of, off, from, away”).
词源 8
From Middle English a-, o- (“of”). See a (preposition, of).
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