o-
English
Noun
o-
- A blood type that has no antigens. It lacks the A, B and Rh factors on the blood cells. It is the universal donor for blood and can give blood to any blood type, but can only receive O- blood.
Basque
Alternative forms
Usage notes
- If the following element of the compound starts with /b/ or /ɡ/, these are devoiced to /p/ and /k/ respectively.
- If the following element starts with a vowel, /s̺/ or /s̻/, the combining form ot- is used instead.
Bavarian
Alternative forms
- å- (East Central)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *ana, from Proto-Germanic *ana. Compare German an-, Dutch aan-, English on-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oː/ (West Central)
Prefix
o-
Derived terms
Cayuga
Prefix
o-
- noun prefix
References
Frances Froman, Alfred J. Keye, Lottie Keye, Carrie Dyck (2002) English-Cayuga/Cayuga-English Dictionary, University of Toronto, page 705
Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *o(b), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ebʰi. See o.
Derived terms
- obalamutit
- obalit
- obrat
- obrátit
- ocenit
- očekávat
- odrat
- odrbat
- odřít
- ohanbí
- ohlédnout
- ohnout
- ohodnotit
- ohradit
- ochabnout
- oklamat
- okleštit
- okopat
- okorat
- okovat
- okrást
- omastit
- omladit
- omluvit
- omotat
- omýt
- opracovat
- opravit
- oprášit
- opsat
- osamělý
- osamět
- osedlat
- osekat
- osvítit
- osvobodit
- osvojit
- osypat
- ošetřit
- ošidit
- oškubat
- otočit
- otrávit
- ovládat
- ozářit
- označit
- oznámit
- ozřejmit
Further reading
- o-/ob(e)- in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017
Lakota
Prefix
o-
- Forms nouns from some verbs.
- o- + wótA (“to eat”) → owóte (“dining room”)
- o- + yuŋkÁ (“to lie, recline”) → oyúŋke (“a bed”)
Northern Ndebele
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Prefix
o-
- Second-person singular relative concord.
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Prefix
o-
- Class 1 relative concord.
Etymology 3
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Prefix
o-
- Class 3 relative concord.
Ojibwe
Prefix
o-
- A prefix denoting the third person
Usage notes
o- is the unmarked form, and appears before stems that begin with a consonant. It may be omitted in many contexts.
See also
Preverb
o-
- go somewhere to do something, go over there to
- Mii go imaa ziigigamideg, mii imaa o-gondaabiiginag zhingobaandag.
- If it boiled over, I dipped the bough in the kettle.
Alternative forms
References
- The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/o-pv-dir
Old Polish
Etymology
Proto-Slavic *o(b), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ebʰi.
Prefix
o-
Derived terms
Descendants
- Polish: o-
Onondaga
Prefix
o-
- noun prefix
References
- Hanni Woodbury (2018) A Reference Grammar of the Onondaga Language, University of Toronto, page 284
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish o, from Proto-Slavic *o(b), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ebʰi. See o. Doublet of ob-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔ/
Prefix
o-
Derived terms
Further reading
- o- in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Seneca
Prefix
o-
- noun prefix
References
- Wallace Chafe (2014) A Grammar of the Seneca Language, University of California Press, page 86
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *o(b)-. Prefixed form of the preposition o.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔ-/
Prefix
o-
- Forms perfective verbs with the following meanings:
Derived terms
Southern Ndebele
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Prefix
o-
- Second-person singular relative concord.
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Prefix
o-
- Class 1 relative concord.
Etymology 3
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Prefix
o-
- Class 3 relative concord.
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish ō-, from Old Norse ú-, ó-, from Proto-Germanic *un-, from the Proto-Indo-European *n̥- whence also Greek α- (a-) and English un-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²uː/
Prefix
o-
Derived terms
Taos
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʔɑ/
Prefix
o-
- (transitive) First person singular subject + third person duoplural object.
- (transitive) Second person singular subject + third person singular object.
Ternate
See also
independent | subject proclitic | possessive | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Informal | Formal | |||||
1st person singular | ngori | fangarem, fajaruf | to | ri | ||
2nd person singular | ngana | ngoni, jou ngoni | no | ni | ||
3rd person singular | unam, minaf | om, mof, inh | im, mif, manh | |||
1st person plural inclusive | ngone | fo | na, nga | |||
1st person plural exclusive | ngomi | fangare ngomim, fajaru ngomif, fara ngomi1 | mi | mi, mia | ||
2nd person plural | ngoni | ni | na, nia | |||
3rd person plural | anah, enanh | ih, nh, yoh, †, yanh, † | nah, ngah, manh |
- unmarked pronouns are gender non-specific
- m - masculine, f - feminine, h - human, nh - non-human
- 1 - for mixed-gender groups
- † - archaic
References
- Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
Tooro
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o-/
See also
Class | Person | Independent | Possessive | Subject concord | Object concord | Combined forms | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
na | ni | ||||||
Class 1 | First | nyowe, nye | -ange | n- | -n- | nanyowe, nanye | ninyowe, ninye |
Second | iwe | -awe | o- | -ku- | naiwe | niiwe | |
Third | uwe | -e | a- | -mu- | nawe | nuwe | |
Class 2 | First | itwe | -aitu | tu- | -tu- | naitwe | niitwe |
Second | inywe | -anyu | mu- | -ba- | nainywe | niinywe | |
Third | abo | -abo | ba- | -ba- | nabo | nubo | |
Class 3 | gwo | -agwo | gu- | -gu- | nagwo | nugwo | |
Class 4 | yo | -ayo | e- | -gi- | nayo | niyo | |
Class 5 | lyo | -alyo | li- | -li- | nalyo | niryo | |
Class 6 | go | -ago | ga- | -ga- | nago | nugo | |
Class 7 | kyo | -akyo | ki- | -ki- | nakyo | nikyo | |
Class 8 | byo | -abyo | bi- | -bi- | nabyo | nibyo | |
Class 9 | yo | -ayo | e- | -gi- | nayo | niyo | |
Class 10 | zo | -azo | zi- | -zi- | nazo | nizo | |
Class 11 | rwo | -arwo | ru- | -ru- | narwo | nurwo | |
Class 12 | ko | -ako | ka- | -ka- | nako | nuko | |
Class 13 | two | -atwo | tu- | -tu- | natwo | nutwo | |
Class 14 | bwo | -abwo | bu- | -bu- | nabwo | nubwo | |
Class 15 | kwo | -akwo | ku- | -ku- | nakwo | nukwo | |
Class 16 | ho | -aho | ha- | -ha- | naho | nuho | |
Class 17 | (kwo) | N/A | ha- (...-yo) |
-ha- | N/A | nukwo | |
Class 18 | (mwo) | -amwo | ha- (...-mu) |
-ha- | N/A | numwo | |
Reflexive | -enyini, -onyini | — | -e- | — |
Volapük
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔ/
Xhosa
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Prefix
o-
- Second-person singular relative concord.
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Prefix
o-
- Class 1 relative concord.
Etymology 3
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Prefix
o-
- Class 3 relative concord.
Ye'kwana
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [o-]
Prefix
o-
Inflection
pronoun | noun possessor/ series II verb argument |
postposition object | series I verb argument | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
transitive patient | intransitive patient-like | intransitive agent-like | transitive agent | |||||||
first person | ewü | y-, ∅-, ü-, u-1 | w-, wi- | |||||||
first person dual inclusive | küwü | k-, kü-, ku-, ki- | k-, kii-, ki-1 | |||||||
second person | amödö | ö-, öy-/öd-, o-, oy-/od-, a-, ay-/ad- | m-, mi- | |||||||
first person dual exclusive | nña | y-/d-, ch-, ∅-, i-1 | chö- | ∅- | n-, ni- | |||||
third person | tüwü | n-, ni- | ||||||||
distant past third person | — | kün-, kun-, kin-, ken-, küm-, kum-, kim-, kini- | ||||||||
coreferential/reflexive | — | t-, tü-, tu-, ti-, te- | — | |||||||
reciprocal | — | — | öö- | |||||||
|
series I verb argument: transitive agent and transitive patient | |
---|---|
first person > second person | mön-, man-, mon-, möm-, möni- |
first person dual exclusive > second person | |
second person > first person | k-, kü-, ku-, ki- |
second person > first person dual exclusive | |
third person > any person X …or… any person X > third person | see person X in the chart above |
Zulu
Prefix
ṓ-
- Second-person singular relative concord.
Prefix
ṓ-
- Class 1 relative concord.
Prefix
ô-
- Class 2a noun prefix.
Prefix
ṓ-
- Class 3 relative concord.
References
- C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “o-”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “o-”
- C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “o-”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “o- (8)”
- C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “o-”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “o- (3)”
- C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “o-”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “o-”