é- - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Inherited from Old French es-, from Latin ex-, ē-.

• IPA^(key): /e/
• Homophones: ai, eh, et, hé

é-

1. prefix indicating away, moving away from; sometimes used as an intensifier, for example in écru

é-

1. (disjunct prefix of position I); postpositional prefix meaning “about”, “concerning”; is often found in contraction with ná- (“around”, reversionary) as (b)éé-, where it converges in shape with -í (“against”)
   ► Navajo terms prefixed with é- (postpositional)

From Proto-Celtic *an-, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥-.

é-

1. Alternative form of an- (“un-, non-”)

   ‎é- + ‎trom (“heavy”) → ‎étrum (“light”, literally “unheavy”)

   ‎é- + ‎cubus (“conscience”) → ‎écubus (“bad faith”, literally “non-conscience”)

   ‎é- + ‎cosmail (“like, similar”) → ‎écsamail (“dissimilar, different”)

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]

• Irish: éa-