What are the patterns of Be, A, and Pro prefixes?

Are all good words given un- prefix reversed? Undo/do, unfair/fair, undying/dying.
If the prefix is a prefix, why does that prefix modify the original text to the correct order? Are the trees repeating patterns?

  • Be- bewitch, beknow, befall, behold, befriend, begone,… A-
  • amiss, amass, arise, atop, afar, amid, alight, abash, await,… Pro- proactive,
  • provoke,…
Asked on March 1, 2021 in Other.
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What is Be-a-Prefix?

  • (Befog)
  • to affect completely or excessively. (bedazzle)
  • to consider as or cause to be. To provide
  • or cover with, or wearing in (in adjectives ending in -ed). What
  • is it to treat someone as (in verbs)? When
  • someone islittle on an object (please use the adjective “belittle”) to cause something to be (-ed. (Besieged, Becalmed)
  • used to turn intransitive verbs (= without an object) into transitive verbs (= with an object). (Bemoan)
  • around, on all sides, by. To intensify adjectives and
  • verbs (between, beside, Between, Belay etc.). Beloved, Befeathered, Behate) abundantly,
  • all over. In the scriptures is likewise and primarily. (Bekiss)
  • to form adjectives from nouns, with the sense “having + noun”. See definitions. What do

you

  • mean by turn into, change, produce? What are

some great examples of “Bewitch, Beget” in ELU?

The A- prefix

A- prefix is reduced form of the Old English Preposition on, meaning “on,” “in,” “to,” or “toward,” preserved before a noun in a prepositional phrase, forming a predicate adjective or an adverbial element ( afoot; abed; ashore; aside; away), as a moribund prefix with a verb, acknowledg; and in archaic and dialectal use before a present partici

“A-” prefix mostly means:

  • shortening of in/on/at. (also see: “From.”) Do not refer
  • to the whole of an act, no. (Asail, Abed, Ahead) (Asail, Abed, Ahead) (the beginning of an act or a scene)? (Arise, Abide)
  • before a consonant means “without”,”opposite to””,like”. Removing and from
  • preposition’s (Achromatic and Amoral) a reduced form of Old English prepositions of and from. (Anew, Afresh)
  • in the condition or state of (unleavability, sex, etc.) : (new, reborn, Afresh) in the state or condition of or demon of. (Asleep, Await, Alive)
  • on”, “in”, “towards”. Definition: (Abed, Aground, Aback,
  • Afoot) literal or archaic (in the act or process of). (a-running, a-hunting)
  • atomic usage. The American

Heritage Science Dictionary also states: A prefix

meaning “without” or “not” when forming an adjective (such as amorphous, without form, or atypical, not typical), and “absence of” when forming a noun (such as arrhythmia, absence of rhythm). Before a vowel or h it becomes an- (as in anhydrous, anoxia)?

They refer to the word “a-” as the result of which one comes from Greek and the other from Old English.

This prefix is

both Greek and Latin. It is likely that the code used for this prefix is too short for a typical American prefix. If the prefix was given in Slovak, it would be to be the Latin prefix.

  • indicating favor for some party, system, idea, etc., e.g. a signatories person. without identity with the group. (Pro communist,
  • Proslavery) a prefix of priority in space or time having especially a meaning of advancing or projecting forward or outward, and also used to indicate substitution, attached widely to stems not used as words. (Provision, Prologue, Produce, Protract)
  • acting as a substitute for. (Pronoun)
  • forward and/or out. In or out. (Front). (Project)
  • Forward and lower. (Project) (Prostrate)
  • away from a place. (Prodigal)
  • forth in time or space (word-forming element meaning “forward, forward, toward the front”). (Proceed)
  • extension outwards. (Propagate)
  • on behalf of (taking care of). What
  • is your contract extension or contract with an intensive force? (Promiscuous)
  • before in time or position, anterior, prior to. (Promiscuous) before in time or position, anterior. (Prophase, Procephalic, Prognathous, Progenitor)
  • beforehand, in advance. (Provide)
  • rudimentary. (Pronucleus)?
Answered on March 1, 2021.
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