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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: -
Be- and en- convert a noun into a trans. verb:1 be-fool.

En- (Em- before a labial),

en-slave.

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Un- (with sense of negation),

un-sex.

For-, fore- (German ver, connected with from or fro), from,

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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.

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-icle (L.), -ic (Gr.),

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ing (A.-S.),

ism (Gr.),

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kin (A.-S.),

Le (A.-S.), form of

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jective termination,

diminutive,

(creed, school of phi-) dogmat-ism, Pla

ont-ic.

(farth-(i.e., fourth)

ing.

ing

✔or

in

-le(d)ge, -lock (A.-S.), -let (A.-S.),

state,

diminutive,

Jknow-ledge, wed

lock.

eye-let, stream-let.

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