ó-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "o"

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse ó-, ú-, from Proto-Germanic *un-, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥-, a prefix use of the particle *né (“not”). In Faroese this changed very early from ú- to ó-.

Cognate with Old English un- (English un-), Old Saxon un-, Dutch on-, Old High German un- (German un-), Swedish o-, Norwegian u, and Gothic 𐌿𐌽- (un-). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-), ἀν- (an-), Latin in-, and Old Irish in-.

Prefix

ó-

un-

Derived terms

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse ó-, ú-, from Proto-Germanic *un-, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥-, a prefix use of the particle *né (“not”). In Icelandic this changed very early from ú- to ó-.

Cognate with Old English un- (English un-), Old Saxon un-, Dutch on-, Old High German un- (German un-), Swedish o-, Norwegian u, and Gothic 𐌿𐌽- (un-). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-), ἀν- (an-), Latin in-, and Old Irish in-.

Prefix

ó-

un-, non-, in-
‎ó- + ‎friður (“peace”) → ‎ófriður (“war”)

‎ó- + ‎heppni (“luck”) → ‎óheppni (“bad luck”)

‎ó- + ‎þekkur (“well-behaved”) → ‎óþekkur (“naughty”)

‎ó- + ‎happ (“a stroke of luck”) → ‎óhapp (“accident”)

‎ó- + ‎samlína (“collinear”) → ‎ósamlína (“noncollinear”)

Derived terms

Icelandic terms prefixed with ó-

óendanlegur (“endless, infinite”)
óbundinn
óheppni
óhittni

Navajo

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ó-/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Athabaskan *ɣʊ-. Cognate with Lower Tanana ghw- and Ahtna gho-.

Prefix

ó-

Marks the optative mode

Conjugation

optative	singular	duoplural	plural
1st person	wósh-	woo-	daoo-
2nd person	wóó-	wooh-	daooh-
3rd person	yó-		dayó-
4th person	jó-		dajó-

Etymology 2

Prefix

ó-

contracted form of yíní-

References

Robert W. Young and William Morgan, Sr. (1987), The Navajo Language: A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary, Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, page 471.

Old Norse

Prefix

ó-

alternative form of ú-