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(non-gloss definition)
(senseid) (non-gloss definition)
''arise, await''
''abide, amaze''
(senseid) In, on, at; used to show a state, condition, or manner. Also passing into sense 2. (defdate)Brown, Lesley (2003)
''apace, afire, aboil, a-bling''
(senseid) In, into. Also passing into sense 5. (defdate)
''asunder''
(senseid)In the direction of, or toward. (defdate)
''astern, abeam''
(senseid) At such a time. (defdate)
''Come a-morning we are going hunting.''
(senseid) In the act or process of. Used in some dialects before a present participle. (defdate)
(ux)
(quote-text)
1780, ''Twelve Days of Christmas (song)|The Twelve Days of Christmas'':
- The twelfth day of Christmas,
- My true love sent to me
- Twelve lords a-leaping,
- …
- Eight maids a-milking,
- Seven swans a-swimming,
- Six geese a-laying,
circa 1850, ''(w)/Here We Come A-caroling''
- Here we come a-wassailing
- Among the leaves so green;
- Here we come a-wand’ring
- So fair to be seen.
{{quote-text|en|year=1939|author=Alfred Edward Housman|title=Additional Poems|section=XIII, lines 6-7
1964, (w), (w) (recorded 1963, released 1964):
- The order is rapidly fadin'
- And the first one now will later be last
- For the times they are a-changin'
circa 1970, bumper sticker:See “Don’t Come A-Knockin’”, ''TV Tropes'' for more examples and discussion.
- If the van’s a-rockin’, don’t come a-knockin’.
(senseid)(alternative form of) (n-g) (defdate)
''aware, alike''
(senseid) (n-g)
''I have a-gone.''
''I have a-seen a bird.''
(senseid) (non-gloss definition) (defdate)
''abash''
(senseid) Not, without, opposite of.
''amoral, asymmetry, atheism, asexual, acyclic, atypical''
1948 (revised 1952), (w), ''The White Goddess'', Faber & Faber 1999, page 7:
- When invited to believe in the Chimaera, the horse-centaurs, or the winged horse Pegasus, all of them straightforward Pelasgian cult-symbols, a philosopher felt bound to reject them as a-zoölogical improbabilities ....
{{quote-text|en|year=2012|author=Faramerz Dabhoiwala|title=The Origins of Sex|page=191|publisher=Penguin|year_published=2013
(senseid) Towards; Used to indicate direction, reduction to, increase to, change into, or motion. (defdate)
''ascend, aspire, amass, abandon, avenue ''
(senseid) Away from. (defdate)
''avert, aperient, abridge, assoil, assoilzie''
(senseid) Of, from. (defdate)
''anew, afresh, athirst''
(senseid)(alt form)
''a-''be, ''a-''going
(uxi)
(l) (gloss)
(prefixusex)
(n-g)
(syn)
(afex)
a- (gloss)
a- (gl)
(alt form) (n-g)
ad- (q)
(l) (q)
(alternative form of)
(alternative form of)
(ngd)
(n-g)
they; (n-g)
of; (n-g)
(senseid) a- (q)
(senseid) (short for)
a- (q)
(alt form)
him (qualifier)
it (qualifier)
(ng)
ad- (gl)
''aback, agley, agrufe, athort, atween''
''adoon''
''adae, agae''
away from
''abide, arise''
''alang''
''awhile''
''aweel, alake''
''avise''
''assoilzie''
(ant)
(contraction of)) gnomic
at (gl)
(ux) of every month.
(ux).
(ngd).
(ngd) used for stems that begin with a consonant and have a first vowel (m) or (m).