Contionary:ų-

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Niemish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ʊ̃/ (before a nonplosive consonant), /ʊm/ (before a labial plosive), /ʊŋ/ (before a velar plosive), /un/ (before a coronal plosive or a vowel; in the latter case it is spelt ùn-)

Etymology

From Gothic un-.

Prefix

ų̀-

  1. un- (negation prefix denoting absence, a lack of; violative of; contrary to; perversion of; inversion of)
    ų̀- + grás ("grass") → ùgrás ("weed")
    ų̀- + lùff ("herb") → ų̀lùff ("poison")
    ų̀- + ódag ("lucky") → ùnódag ("unlucky")
    ų̀- + síl ("good, virtuous") → ų̀síl ("wicked")
    ų̀- + skíwen ("occurance, happening") → ų̀skíwen ("accident")

Etymology

From Gothic and-.

Prefix

ų̀-

  1. un-, de-; forms verbs from other verbs meaning to negate
  2. un-, de-; forms verbs from nouns meaning to negate, deprive, release, remove, separate, extract