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al-

prefix

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Indo-European *h₂elnós Proto-Germanic *allaz Proto-Germanic *ala- Proto-West Germanic *ala- Old English æl- Middle English al- English al- From Middle English al-, from Old English eal-, eall- (“all-”). More at all.

  1. inherited from eal-
  2. inherited from al-

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of all-.

  2. Alternative form of ad- (“to, toward”).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for al-. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA