köken: From Middle High German -lōs, from Old High German -lōs, from Proto-West Germanic *-laus. Related to lose (“loose”). Cognate with English -less and Dutch -loos.
used to make antonyms (similarly to English prefixes un-, dis-) · reversal, removal (examples: défaire, découvrir, dégeler) · causation, setting in motion (examples: déclencher, démarrer, décoller)
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des- Middle French des- Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-lbor. French dé- * Partially inherited from Middle French des-, from Old French des-, from a conflation of Latin dis- (“apart”) (ultimately from…
-less (sometimes also translated as un-, in-; see example below)
köken: From بی (“without”), earlier ابی (abê), from Middle Persian [script needed] (apě), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off, away”). Compare Old Armenian ապա- (apa-), an Iranian borrowing.
un-; de-; dis- (forms verbs indicating the reversal of the prefixed verb) · un- (forms nouns indicating the lack or opposite of the prefixed noun) · misspelling of dis-
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese des-, from Latin dis-.
Indicates lack of something; -less, un-, in-, non-, -free.
zıt: -llinen
köken: From Proto-Finnic *-t'oin (compare Estonian -tu), from Proto-Uralic *-ktama (compare Northern Sami -heapme and Moksha -фтома (-ftoma), Erzya -(в)томо (-(v)tomo), Udmurt -тэм (-tem)).
asunder, apart, in two · reversal, removal · utterly, exceedingly
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Inherited from Proto-Italic *dis-, from Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- (“in two, apart”), ultimate details are disputed. The loss of the *w is also found in all descendants of Proto-Germanic *t(w)iz-, with the exception of the uncommon Gothic 𐍄𐍅𐌹𐍃- (twis-), interestingly largely displaced by the…