o-
English edit
Noun edit
o-
- A blood type that has no antigens. It lacks the A, B and Rh factors on the blood cells. It is the universal donor for blood and can give blood to any blood type, but can only receive O- blood.
Prefix edit
o-
See also edit
Basque edit
Alternative forms edit
Prefix edit
o-
- Combining form of ogi (“bread”)
Usage notes edit
- If the following element of the compound starts with /b/ or /ɡ/, these are devoiced to /p/ and /k/ respectively.
- If the following element starts with a vowel, /s̺/ or /s̻/, the combining form ot- is used instead.
Bavarian edit
Alternative forms edit
- å- (East Central)
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *ana, from Proto-Germanic *ana. Compare German an-, Dutch aan-, English on-.
Pronunciation edit
Prefix edit
o-
- Separable verb prefix that indicates a direction, goal, destination and a contact made therein.
Derived terms edit
Cayuga edit
Prefix edit
o-
- noun prefix
References edit
Frances Froman, Alfred J. Keye, Lottie Keye, Carrie Dyck (2002) English-Cayuga/Cayuga-English Dictionary, University of Toronto, page 705
Czech edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *o(b), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ebʰi. See o.
Prefix edit
o-
- around, all around
- a complete action, a perfective verb
- something else
Derived terms edit
- obalamutit
- obalit
- obrat
- obrátit
- ocenit
- očekávat
- odrat
- odrbat
- odřít
- ohanbí
- ohlédnout
- ohnout
- ohodnotit
- ohradit
- ochabnout
- oklamat
- okleštit
- okopat
- okorat
- okovat
- okrást
- omastit
- omladit
- omluvit
- omotat
- omýt
- opracovat
- opravit
- oprášit
- opsat
- osamělý
- osamět
- osedlat
- osekat
- osvítit
- osvobodit
- osvojit
- osypat
- ošetřit
- ošidit
- oškubat
- otočit
- otrávit
- ovládat
- ozářit
- označit
- oznámit
- ozřejmit
Further reading edit
- o-/ob(e)- in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
o-
Lakota edit
Prefix edit
o-
Mohawk edit
Etymology edit
io- with loss of initial glide
Prefix edit
o-
- noun prefix
- her (in kinship terms)
Northern Ndebele edit
Etymology 1 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Prefix edit
o-
- Second-person singular relative concord.
Etymology 2 edit
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Prefix edit
o-
- Class 1 relative concord.
Etymology 3 edit
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Prefix edit
o-
- Class 3 relative concord.
Ojibwe edit
Prefix edit
o-
- A prefix denoting the third person
Usage notes edit
o- is the unmarked form, and appears before stems that begin with a consonant. It may be omitted in many contexts.
Alternative forms edit
See also edit
Preverb edit
o-
- go somewhere to do something, go over there to
- Mii go imaa ziigigamideg, mii imaa o-gondaabiiginag zhingobaandag.
- If it boiled over, I dipped the bough in the kettle.
Alternative forms edit
References edit
- The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/o-pv-dir
Old Polish edit
Etymology edit
Proto-Slavic *o(b), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ebʰi.
Pronunciation edit
Prefix edit
o-
- appears in front of some verbs meaning: to make something behave in a certain way, en-, be-, make
- around
- prefix indicating a perfective verb
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Polish: o-
Onondaga edit
Prefix edit
o-
- noun prefix
References edit
- Hanni Woodbury (2018) A Reference Grammar of the Onondaga Language, University of Toronto, page 284
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Polish o, from Proto-Slavic *o(b), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ebʰi. See o. Doublet of ob-.
Pronunciation edit
Prefix edit
o-
- prefix indicating a perfective verb
- affects verb meaning in various ways
- appears in front of some verbs meaning: to make something behave in a certain way, en-, be-, make
- around
- down
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- o- in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Seneca edit
Prefix edit
o-
- noun prefix
References edit
- Wallace Chafe (2014) A Grammar of the Seneca Language, University of California Press, page 86
Slovene edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *o(b)-. Prefixed form of the preposition o.
Pronunciation edit
Prefix edit
o-
- Forms perfective verbs with the following meanings:
Derived terms edit
Southern Ndebele edit
Etymology 1 edit
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Prefix edit
o-
- Second-person singular relative concord.
Etymology 2 edit
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Prefix edit
o-
- Class 1 relative concord.
Etymology 3 edit
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Prefix edit
o-
- Class 3 relative concord.
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Swedish ō-, from Old Norse ú-, ó-, from Proto-Germanic *un-, from the Proto-Indo-European *n̥- whence also Greek α- (a-) and English un-.
Pronunciation edit
Prefix edit
o-
Derived terms edit
Taos edit
Pronunciation edit
Prefix edit
o-
- (transitive) First person singular subject + third person duoplural object.
- (transitive) Second person singular subject + third person singular object.
Ternate edit
Etymology edit
Cognate with Tehit w- (“third-person singular masculine prefix”).
Pronoun edit
o- (Jawi ؤ-)
See also edit
independent | subject proclitic | possessive | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Informal | Formal | |||||
1st person singular | ngori | fangarem, fajaruf | to | ri | ||
2nd person singular | ngana | ngoni, jou ngoni | no | ni | ||
3rd person singular | unam, minaf | om, mof, inh | im, mif, manh | |||
1st person plural inclusive | ngone | fo | na, nga | |||
1st person plural exclusive | ngomi | fangare ngomim, fajaru ngomif, fara ngomi1 | mi | mi, mia | ||
2nd person plural | ngoni | ni | na, nia | |||
3rd person plural | anah, enanh | ih, nh, yoh, †, yanh, † | nah, ngah, manh |
- unmarked pronouns are gender non-specific
- m - masculine, f - feminine, h - human, nh - non-human
- 1 - for mixed-gender groups
- † - archaic
References edit
- Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
Tooro edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Prefix edit
o-
See also edit
References edit
Volapük edit
Prefix edit
o-
- denotes future tense in verbs and adverbs
Welsh edit
Pronunciation edit
Prefix edit
o-
- Soft mutation of go-.
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
go- | o- | ngo- | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Xhosa edit
Etymology 1 edit
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Prefix edit
o-
- Second-person singular relative concord.
Etymology 2 edit
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Prefix edit
o-
- Class 1 relative concord.
Etymology 3 edit
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Prefix edit
o-
- Class 3 relative concord.
Ye'kwana edit
Pronunciation edit
Prefix edit
o-
- allomorph of öt- (detransitivizing prefix).
- Allomorph of ö- (second-person prefix) used for stems that begin with a consonant and have a first vowel o or u.
Inflection edit
pronoun | noun possessor/ series II verb argument |
postposition object | series I verb argument | |||||||
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transitive patient | intransitive patient-like | intransitive agent-like | transitive agent | |||||||
first person | ewü | y-, ∅-, ü-, u-1 | w-, wi- | |||||||
first person dual inclusive | küwü | k-, kü-, ku-, ki- | k-, kii-, ki-1 | |||||||
second person | amödö | ö-, öy-/öd-, o-, oy-/od-, a-, ay-/ad- | m-, mi- | |||||||
first person dual exclusive | nña | y-/d-, ch-, ∅-, i-1 | chö- | ∅- | n-, ni- | |||||
third person | tüwü | n-, ni- | ||||||||
distant past third person | — | kün-, kun-, kin-, ken-, küm-, kum-, kim-, kini- | ||||||||
coreferential/reflexive | — | t-, tü-, tu-, ti-, te- | — | |||||||
reciprocal | — | — | öö- | |||||||
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series I verb argument: transitive agent and transitive patient | |
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first person > second person | mön-, man-, mon-, möm-, möni- |
first person dual exclusive > second person | |
second person > first person | k-, kü-, ku-, ki- |
second person > first person dual exclusive | |
third person > any person X …or… any person X > third person | see person X in the chart above |
Zulu edit
Etymology 1 edit
From a- (“relative”) + u- (“second person singular”).
Prefix edit
ṓ-
- Second-person singular relative concord.
Etymology 2 edit
From a- (“relative”) + u- (“class 1”).
Prefix edit
ṓ-
- Class 1 relative concord.
Etymology 3 edit
From a- (“augment”) + bo- (“class 2a”).
Prefix edit
ô-
- Class 2a noun prefix.
Etymology 4 edit
From a- (“relative”) + u- (“class 3”).
Prefix edit
ṓ-
- Class 3 relative concord.
References edit
- C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “o-”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “o-”
- C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “o-”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “o- (8)”
- C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “o-”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “o- (3)”
- C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “o-”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “o-”