[with dative] on, upon (positioned at the top of) · [with accusative] on, onto, up (moving to the top of) · [with accusative] on (indicating responsibility)
eş: bei, zu, für
köken: From Middle High German ūf, from Old High German ūf, from Proto-Germanic *upp. This form with a lengthened vowel is originally Upper German. Central German forms were Middle High German uf and (western) up. Compare Dutch op, Low German op, Luxembourgish op, English up.
until (up to the time of something happening) · by (at some point before the given time) · to (all the way to a place)
eş: inté
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese até, ata of uncertain origin. Possibly from Arabic حَتَّى (ḥattā), Latin ad ista (“to this”) or Latin ad tenus (“as far as”) (>"ad tenes"), which explain the large number of mediaeval variants (atrõe, atée, atrõo, attaa, atẽe, atães, tẽe and so on). However, considering the rarity of tenus, possibly from Latin intrā. Compare Spanish hasta, Leonese ata,…
aile: até a próxima, até breve, até já, até mais, até mais ver, até mesmo, até parece, até que, até-logo
A aula dura até às dez horas.
Das duas uma, ou eu parava e me deixava ser capturado, ou eu continuava fugindo até encontrar algum buraco para me esconder.
Forms the impersonal indicative present forms of verbs, appended to the first infinitive.
köken: From earlier -han, -hVn (now dialectal), from Proto-Finnic *-hën, *-sën (passive or reflexive suffix), the same as the third-person singular possessive suffix (see the possessive suffix entry on -Vn). Initial -ta- is from the passive marker *-tta-.
toward, to · up to (indicating direction upwards) · near, by, close by, at, to (indicating location)
köken: From Proto-Italic *ad, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“near, at”). Cognates include English at. The accusative is from the hypothesized pre-PIE allative (or 'directional'), which merged with the accusative case in Proto-Italic.
aile: ad absurdum, ad amussim, ad arma, ad astra, ad hoc, ad hominem, ad infinitum, ad kalendas Graecas, ad libitum, ad nauseam
Fugere ad puppim collēs campīque videntur.
Meridie umbrae cadunt ad septentrionem, ortu vero ad occasum.
köken: Cognate with Muong tểnh, tiểnh, Tho [Cuối Chăm] teːŋ³ and Kri têêngq ("to arrive"). Compare Proto-Tai *C̬.tɤŋᴬ (whence Thai ถึง (tʉ̌ng)), Lakkia taŋ²³¹, Maonan taŋ¹, and Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *datəŋ (whence Malay datang, Tagalog dating). Most prepositions in Vietnamese were originally verbs: cho (“to give; for”), ở (“to stay; at, in”), tới (“to arrive; to”), lên (“to go up; onto”), vào (“to…
According to Coromines and Pascual, from Old Spanish fazia (attested ca. 1300), with the variant faza (att. in Cid, Berceo, Calila e Dimna), and in pre-literary Latinized spelling faze ad (att. 1208, in a legal document), from Latin faciem ad (facing towards). Unlike in faz, the final -e of Latin faciem was conserved due to appearing in an established phrase, cf. Spanish pese a and its variant…