a-
suomi-englanti sanakirjaa- englanniksi
(non-gloss)
(abbreviation of)
(senseid) (non-gloss)
(co)
(senseid) In, on, at; used to show a state, condition, or manner. Also passing into sense 2. (defdate)Brown, Lesley (2003)
(senseid) In, into. Also passing into sense 5. (defdate)
(senseid)In the direction of, or toward. (defdate)
(senseid) At such a time. (defdate)
(ux)
(senseid) In the act or process of. Used in some dialects before a present participle. (defdate)
(coi)
(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
1947, ''A NORTH-COUNTY DUBLIN CLOSSARY'':(R:O'Neill 1947)
- The hay is a-cutting now. You're a-wanting.
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)
(senseid) (n-g)
(senseid) (non-gloss) (defdate)
(senseid) Not, without, opposite of.
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)
(senseid) Away from. (defdate)
(senseid) Of, from. (defdate)
(senseid)(alt form).
(uxi)
''positive active verbal singular concord''
Akwi ― I wore
(l) (gloss)
(prefixusex)
(n-g)
(ng)
(coa)
(syn)
(l): not, without, opposite of
(senseid) (n-g)
(afex)
a- (gloss)
a- (gl)
(alt form) (n-g)
ad- (q)
(l) (q)
(ja-rom of)
(n-g): not
(alternative form of)
(alternative form of)
(n-g)
they; (n-g)
of; (n-g)
(senseid) (l) (q)
(senseid) (short for)
(alt form)
him (qualifier)
it (qualifier)
ad- (gl)
''aback, agley, agrufe, athort, atween''
''adoon''
''adae, agae''
away from
''abide, arise''
''alang''
''awhile''
''aweel, alake''
''avise''
''assoilzie''
(ant)
(RQ:Abdallah bin Ali Inkishafi)
(contraction of)) gnomic
at (gl)
(ux) of every month.
(ux).
(alt form of)
(ng) used for stems that begin with a consonant and have a first vowel (m) or (m)