English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin ad-. Doublet of at-.

Prefix edit

ad-

  1. (no longer productive) Doing, enacting, forming a verb.
    accouple, admarginate, admixture, attune
  2. Near, close to, adjacent.
    adaxonal, addental, admedial
  3. Towards in direction or movement. (anatomy) Towards the midline of the body.
    adapical, adfluvial, adgerminal
  4. (no longer productive) Intensifying, additionally.
    acclaim, adsignification, adspection
  5. Along, alongside.
    admarginal, adnervular, adstratum
  6. Appending and/or prepending. Adding from either side.
    adfix, adposition, affix
  7. Modifying.
    adnominal, adverb, assoil
  8. Atop or above in position.
    adatom, adcumulate, aggrade

Derived terms edit

Translations edit

References edit

Anagrams edit

Catalan edit

Prefix edit

ad-

  1. ad-

Ido edit

Etymology edit

Prefix form of ad. Also based on Latin ad-.

Prefix edit

ad-

  1. to (indicating that to which there is movement, tendency or position, with or without arrival)
    portar (carry, bear)adportar (bring, carry (to a person or place))
    ube (where)adube (where to (with motion), whither)

Derived terms edit

Latin edit

Alternative forms edit

For euphony, ad- can assimilate the attached stem's initial consonant, becoming: a- (before sc, sp, st, and sometimes gn), ac- (before c and q), af- (before f), ag-, al-, ap-, ar-, as-, or at-.

Etymology edit

From the Latin preposition ad (to, towards), in turn from Proto-Italic *ad, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (near, at).

Prefix edit

ad-

  1. to
  2. usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it often has the effect of intensifying the verbal action

See also edit

Lushootseed edit

Prefix edit

ad-

  1. your (singular)

Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Celtic *ad-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (near, at). Cognates include Latin ad and English at.

Prefix edit

ad-

  1. to, towards
  2. in many compounds, it has a purely intensive sense
  3. augment infix used instead of ro- on verbs whose first prefix is com- and the stressed syllable starts with a consonant
    con·birt (you conceived) + ‎ad- → ‎con·abairt (you have conceived) (forms of con·beir)
    con·melt ((s)he rubbed) + ‎ad- → ‎con·amailt ((s)he had rubbed) (forms of con·meil)
    ·coscrad (not destroyed) + ‎ad- → ‎·comscarad (had not destroyed) (past subjunctive prototonic forms of con·scara)
    con·gab (it contained) + ‎ad- → ‎con·acab (it had contained) (forms of con·gaib)
    *·cotla + ‎ad- → ‎·comthala (subjunctive forms of con·tuili (to sleep))

Usage notes edit

  • ad-, when used as an augment affix, vanishes in prototonic forms due to syncope. However, its presence may be detected via the different syncope patterns between forms augmented with ad- and those that were not.
  • In deuterotonic verbs where ad- is the first prefix and the next sound is /t/, the d in the prefix may be dropped in its spelling.

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Irish: a- (no longer productive)

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
ad- unchanged n-ad-
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

Portuguese edit

Alternative forms edit

Prefix edit

ad-

  1. ad- (near; at)

Welsh edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Brythonic *ate-, from Proto-Celtic *ati-.[1] from Proto-Indo-European *éti.[2] Cognate with Cornish as-, English ed-, Latin et (and), Sanskrit अति (ati, over-).

Pronunciation edit

Prefix edit

ad-

  1. again, back, re-
    Synonym: ail-
    ad- + ‎llais (voice) → ‎adlais (echo)
    ad- + ‎talu (to pay) → ‎ad-dalu (to refund)
    ad- + ‎blas (taste) → ‎adflas (aftertaste)
  2. affirmative prefix, emphasises prefixed word
    ad- + ‎cas (hated, nasty) → ‎atgas (hateful, detestable)

Derived terms edit

Mutation edit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal h-prothesis
ad- unchanged unchanged had-
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  1. ^ Morris Jones, John (1913) A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative, Oxford: Clarendon Press, § 156 i (1)
  2. ^ Morris Jones, John (1913) A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative, Oxford: Clarendon Press, § 222 i (3)

Ye'kwana edit

Pronunciation edit

Prefix edit

ad-

  1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) Allomorph of ö- (second-person prefix) used for stems that begin with a vowel a or e.

Inflection edit