oh-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "oh"

Choctaw

Prefix

oh- (before consonants ho-, imperative second-person plural)

1. the subject of an imperative verb

   let you (all), do you (all), do ye

2. (obsolete) used in place of ordinary pronominal suffixes in the communication between in-laws, especially a man and his mother-in-law
   Im ia lih. → Oh ia lih. (traditional spelling)

   I went with him.

Inflection

Choctaw Person Markers

			class I			class II		class III		class N		imperative
			+s	+C	+V	+C/i	+a/o	+C	+V	+C	+V	+C	+V
first-person	singular	initial	-li			sa-	si-	a̱-	am-	ak-		n/a
		medial						-sa-	-sam-
	paucal		ī-		il-	pi-		pi̱-	pim-	kī-	kil-
	plural					hapi-		hapi̱-	hapim-
second-person	singular		is-	ish-		chi-		chi̱-	chim-	chik-		∅
	plural		has-	hash-		hachi-		hachi̱-	hachim-	hachik-		ho-	oh-
third-person			∅			∅		i̱-	im-	ik-

East Central German

Etymology

From oh, from Middle High German abe, ab, from Old High German ab, from Proto-West Germanic *ab(a), from Proto-Germanic *ab. Compare German ab-.

Prefix

oh-

1. (Erzgebirgisch, non-gloss definition, Separable verb prefix that indicates removal or quitting,) off, away.

   ‎oh- + ‎flahe (“to rinse, wash”) → ‎ohflahe (“to rinse off, wash off”)

   ‎oh- + ‎taae (“to thaw, melt”) → ‎ohtaae (“to defrost”)

2. (Erzgebirgisch, non-gloss definition, Separable verb prefix that indicates a downward movement,) down.

   Synonyms: runnr-, nunnr-

   ‎oh- + ‎steing (“to rise, climb, increase”) → ‎ohsteing (“to descend, dismount, get off”)

3. (Erzgebirgisch, non-gloss definition, Noun prefix that indicates being different from the source or) deviation.

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “on”): ah-
• (antonym(s) of “up”): off-

Derived terms

East Central German terms prefixed with oh-

References

• Wörterbuch der obersächsischen und erzgebirgischen Mundarten, P. 4
• 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎^[1], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 93: