dé-
See also: Appendix:Variations of "de"
French
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- Partially inherited from Middle French des-, from Old French des-, from a conflation of Latin dis- (“apart”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dwís) and Late Latin dē ex = dē- (“from”) + ex- (“out”); Compare the neological borrowing dis-.
Pronunciation
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- used to make antonyms (similarly to English prefixes un-, dis-)
- reversal, removal (examples: défaire, découvrir, dégeler)
- causation, setting in motion (examples: déclencher, démarrer, décoller)
- away, from, off, apart
Derived terms
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Derived terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
|---|---|---|
| dé- | dhé- | ndé- |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “dé-”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “dé-”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026
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- French terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *de
- French learned borrowings from Latin
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *déh₁
- French terms derived from Proto-Italic
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French terms inherited from Latin
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *dwóh₁
- French terms inherited from Middle French
- French terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- French terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
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- French terms borrowed from Latin
- French terms inherited from Late Latin
- French terms derived from Late Latin
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