y-
See also: Appendix:Variations of "y"
English
Etymology
From Middle English y-, from Old English ġe- (perfective and associative prefix); see those entries for more.
Pronunciation
Prefix
y-
- (not productive, obsolete) Used with past participle conjugations to form past participles (this prefix does not occur independently and is no longer productive).
Kamba
Alternative forms
Prefix
y-
Maquiritari
Prefix
y-
- Marks the third person for nouns and postpositions with an initial vowel
- Marks the first person for nouns, postpositions, and verbs’ transitive objects and non-derived intransitive subjects
References
- Cáceres, Natalia. Grammaire Fonctionelle-Typologique du Ye'kwana.
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English ġe- (perfective and associative prefix), from unstressed Proto-Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“with”). Cognate with Old Saxon gi-, Dutch ge-, Old High German ga- (German ge-), Old Norse g-, Gothic 𐌲𐌰- (ga-). See also ker-.
Pronunciation
Prefix
y-
- Used with past participle conjugations to form past participles (this prefix does not occur independently).
Derived terms
Descendants
Usage notes
- Not productive in Modern English.
- This prefix represents a common Germanic collective prefix, as well as a perfective prefix which was used to form past participles. Already by the Old English period such participles could be used with or without it, and as it passed into Middle English forms y-, i-, and ȝe-, it became less productive. The prefix was later adopted as a conscious archaism by some writers such as Edmund Spenser, who prepended it to existing past participles.
See also
- ẏ, Middle English abbreviation for þe
- Middle English, y- (prefix) is often confused with ye (pronoun) or with þe (the) or ye (article, definite) and the thorn þ due to typographic variation:
Prefix
y-
- a marker for the third person object
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