el-

See also Appendix:Variations of "el"

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɛl/

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Prefix

el-

1. A verb prefix indicating actions with direction that points away.

   megy (“to go, to walk”) → elmegy (“to go away”)

   alszik (“to sleep”) → elalszik (“to fall asleep”)

See also

• Category:Hungarian words prefixed with el-

References

• Hungarian verb prefixes in the English Wikipedia

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Old English

Alternative forms

• ele-

Etymology

Proto-Germanic *ali-, *alji-, *alja- (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *al- (“beyond, other”). Akin to Old High German eli- (German el-), Old Norse alja-.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /el/

Prefix

el-

1. forming words with sense of "strange", "other" or "else", compare elþēodiġ (“strange, foreign”), ellende (“in a foreign land”); elcor (“elsewhere”). See eldritch