köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic вънъ (vŭnŭ), from Proto-Slavic *vъnъ. Cognate with dialectal во́нки (vónki, “out”), Old Church Slavonic вънъ (vŭnŭ, “out”), Ukrainian во́нка (vónka, “out”), Bulgarian вън (vǎn, “out”) (also въ́нка (vǎ́nka)), Serbo-Croatian ва̏н (“out”), Slovene vèn (“out”) (tonal orthography), Czech ven (“out”), Slovak von (“out”), Old Polish wen (“out”), Upper Sorbian won (“out”),…
köken: From Proto-Finnic *-lta, from *-l(l)- (external locative infix; see -lle) + *-ta (ablative/separative case suffix). Compare -лдо (-ldo) in Erzya васолдо (vasoldo, “from afar”).
indicates actions whose direction is pointing away from the speaker, either literally or figuratively · indicates the unsuccessful or inaccurate completion of an action · indicates separation, deprivation, etc.
köken: Cognate with Northern Mansi эл- (èl-).
megy (“to go, to walk”) → elmegy (“to go away”)
vet (“to throw, to cast”) → elvet (“to dismiss, to rule out, to throw out (a plan or a possible solution)”)
néz (“to look”) → elnéz (“to excuse, to forgive, to look the other way”)
(away) from, off, out of (movement or position away from; separation from) · from; since; due to (indicates the origin, start or cause) · for, of; against (indicates purpose)
köken: From Proto-Balto-Slavic *nō; compare Latvian nò (“from”), Old Prussian no, na (“onto, against, over”), Proto-Slavic *na (“on, to”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂en- (“up, on high”). In East Baltic the meaning somehow switched from "movement onto" to "movement away". Related to Polish na, Russian на (na), English on, Umbrian 𐌀𐌍- (an-), Old Persian 𐎠𐎴𐎠 (a-n-a /anā/, “upwards, along”), Avestan 𐬀𐬥𐬀…