The meanings of these words are not given, in order that the pupil may find out their meanings for himself, in a dictionary if necessary, and may carefully trace the meaning of the prefix in the compound word. 18. Teutonic Prefixes. The following verbal prefixes are of importance: - En- (Em- before a labial), en-slave. eans Un- (with sense of negation), un-sex. For-, fore- (German ver, connected with from or fro), from, For-bear, to keep one's self away from; for-swear, to swear away from the truth. For-give, to give away; fore-done (Spencer), made away with, wearied. This must be distinguished from Fore-, beforehand; fore-tell. 1 Be also makes an adjective and an intr. verb trans., as be-grim(e), be-howl. (Gr. 1 Only those affixes which seem to have some definite meaning (for example, more definite than the Latin ion, and y in victory or symmetry, affixes denoting a noun, or little more) are inserted in this and the following lists. Those which explain themselves, as fill are also omitted. (G st (see -ician (Gr.), -icle (L.), -ic (Gr.), ing (A.-S.), ism (Gr.), ist (see st, below). kin (A.-S.), Le (A.-S.), form of |