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A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofd/ne off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English y- or i- (corrupted from the AS. inseparable particle ge-, cognate with OHG. ga-, gi-, Goth. ga-), which, as a prefix, made no essential addition to the meaning, as in aware. (5) French a (L. ad to), as in abase, achieve. (6) L. a, ab, abs, from, as in avert. (7) Greek insep. prefix / without, or privative, not, as in abyss, atheist; akin to E. un-.
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n.
A person connected through cognation.
n.
Participation of the same nature.
n.
One who is related to another on the female side.
a.
Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).
a.
Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (Law), related on the mother's side.
n. pl.
Relatives by the mother's side.
a.
Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root; allied; kindred; as, a cognate language.
n.
Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred.
n.
A kind of French brandy, so called from the town of Cognac.
v. t.
To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep.
n.
One of a number of things allied in origin or nature; as, certain letters are cognates.
n.
The state of being cognate.
n.
Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation.
n.
That tie of consanguinity which exists between persons descended from the same mother; -- used in distinction from agnation.
a.
Uttered, as an element of speech, with tone or proper vocal sound, as distinguished from mere breath sound; intonated; voiced; tonic; the opposite of nonvocal, or surd; -- sid of the vowels, semivowels, liquids, and nasals, and particularly of the consonants b, d, g hard, v, etc., as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f, etc., which are called nonvocal, surd, or aspirate.
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