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Reply #3: The "be-" prefixes are Anglo-Saxon
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Lydia Leftcoast
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Fri Jun-18-04 10:15 PM
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3. The "be-" prefixes are Anglo-Saxon |
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while the "de-" prefixes are from Latin by way of French.
Other "be-" words include:
benighted becalmed bedeviled bedraggled befuddled belittle
I don't know what the prefix means by itself, though.
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