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ed-

ed- prefix: a prefix of Old English origin meaning "again", "back", "anew", equivalent to re-.

Prefix

ed-

  1. (idiomatic, obsolete) A prefix of Old English origin meaning "again", "back", "anew", equivalent to re-.
    • eddish, eddy, edgrow, edgrowth, ednew, edquicken

Origin of ed-

From Middle English ed-, from Old English ed- (“again, re-”), from Proto-West Germanic *id-, from Proto-Germanic *idi-, *idi, *ida (“back, backwards, again”), from Proto-Indo-European *éti. Cognate with Dutch et-, German dialectal it- (“again, back”), Icelandic ið- (“again, back”), Gothic 𐌹𐌳- (id-, “again, back”), Welsh ad-, Welsh ed- (“again, back”), Latin et (“and”), Latin at (“but, moreover”).

Questions about ed-

What does ed- mean?
Ed- means a prefix of Old English origin meaning "again", "back", "anew", equivalent to re-.
What part of speech is ed-?
Ed- is a prefix.

Words near ed- in the dictionary

  1. eczematoid
  2. eczematous
  3. eczemic
  4. ECZT
  5. ed
  6. ed-
  7. ed.
  8. Ed.D.
  9. ed/ad ratio
  10. Ed25519
  11. EDA

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