é-
See also: Appendix:Variations of "e"
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Old French es-, from Latin ex-, ē-.
PronunciationEdit
PrefixEdit
é-
Derived termsEdit
Old IrishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Celtic *an-, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥-.
PrefixEdit
é-
- Alternative form of an- (“un-, non-”)
Usage notesEdit
Used before c and t, which undergo eclipsis (nasalization) to be pronounced /ɡ/ and /d/. However, the basic form an- is also sometimes found in this context.[1]
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Irish: éa-
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003)D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 872, page 544