[Footnote 1: From chalchihuitl, jade, and cueitl, skirt or petticoat, with the possessive prefix, i, her.]

Under this rule may be included all adjectives with a negative prefix.

Defoe was the son of a London butcher named Foe, and kept his family name until he was forty years of age, when he added the aristocratic prefix with which we have grown familiar.

Nor until now had Mr. Hammond ever addressed her by her Christian name without the ceremonious prefix.

He that shrinks from the trials and rough experience of real life in any department, is described by the contemptuous prefix of chimney-corner, as if shrinking from the cold which he would meet on coming out into the open air amongst his fellow men.

Roro, "slide;" s prefix (euphonic or formal, used by mountain Bagobo before vowels and many consonant sounds, as the labial p here); punno, "tortoise.

The word in Maya for rainbow is chel or cheel; ix is the feminine prefix, which also changes the noun from the inanimate to the animate sense.

The old inflections, genders, formative prefixes, and capability of making self-explaining compounds were for the most part lost.

UNDER, [Gothic, Undar; Dutch, Onder,] beneath, below, is a common Anglo-Saxon word, and very frequent prefix, affirmed by Tooke to be "nothing but on-neder," a Dutch compound = on lower.

It was from the union of Buckingham, who was claimed to be pure Rosehillwith Bebb's daughter Peggie that the great Bachelor resulteda dog whose name is to be found in almost every latter-day pedigree, though Mr. Campbell Newington's strain, to which has descended the historic prefix "Rosehill," contains less of this blood than any other.

A treacherous inseparable prefix had imparted to my "leaving them" an unlooked-for emphasis.

An, as I apprehend, is here a mere prefix, which has somehow been mistaken in form, and erroneously disjoined from the following word.

In ke-bau-diz-ze, which is an equivalent for raca, there is a personal pronominal prefix, and an objective pronominal suffix.

"Mr. Burress," I said (I had retained his name with its remarkable prefix), "will you not lock the gate outside?

This tense prefixes the auxiliaries shall have or will have to the perfect participle: thus, Singular.

A treacherous inseparable prefix had imparted to my "leaving them" an unlooked-for emphasis.

Florio rejoiced in the absurd prefix of Resolute.

It is what comparative philologists call an agglutinative language, and seems to be made up of permanent unchangeable roots with variable prefixes.

This man's name affords an evidence of the manner in which a noun or adjective prefix is joined to a noun proper, namely, by the interposition of a consonant before the noun, whenever the latter begins, and the former ends, with a vowel.