s-

Etymology

In most cases, this prefix stems from Latin ex- (see ex). In some cases, it stems from Latin dis-.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s/ (before voiceless consonants)
• IPA^(key): /z/ (before voiced consonants)

Prefix

s-

1. used to form words that have an opposing sense: un-, in-

   ‎s- + ‎fatto (“done”, “made”) → ‎sfatto (“(of a bed) unmade”)

2. used to form verbs that have a sense of undoing an action: de-, dis-, un-

   ‎s- + ‎gancio (“hook”) → ‎sganciare (“to unhook”)

   ‎s- + ‎borsa (“bag”) → ‎sborsare (“to disburse”)

3. used to express a pejorative sense

   ‎s- + ‎bocca (“mouth”) → ‎sboccato (“foul-mouthed”)

4. used to form verbs with a sense of exit, separation: dis-, ex-, trans-

   ‎s- + ‎buco (“hole”) → ‎sbucare (“to pop out”)

   ‎s- + ‎confine (“boundary”) → ‎sconfinare (“to stray away from”)

5. used in a privative sense: a-, de-, un-

   ‎s- + ‎buccia (“skin”, “peel”) → ‎sbucciare (“to peel”)

   ‎s- + ‎fame (“hunger”) → ‎sfamare (“to feed”, “to satiate”)

6. used to derive verbs from a noun, adjective or verb

   ‎s- + ‎bianco (“white”) → ‎sbiancare (“to whiten or bleach”)

   ‎s- + ‎gocciola (“droplet”) → ‎sgocciolare (“to drip”)

7. used as an intensifier

   ‎s- + ‎cacciare (“to hunt”, “to drive away”) → ‎scacciare (“to expel”, “to drive away”)

8. reduced form of dis-

   discendere (“to descend”) → scendere

References

Etymology

Inherited from Old Javanese sa-, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əsa, from Proto-Austronesian *əsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa/, /sə/

Prefix

s-

1. one

Prefix

s-

1. Added to a verb to form a noun.

   ‎s- + ‎ʔəɬəd (“eat”) → ‎sʔəɬəd (“food”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s/

Article

s-

1. Alternative form of il-

Alternative forms

• se- (before n-, r-, w-, and ’-stems)

Prefix

s-

1. pronominal prefix for

   you _____

Prefix

s-

1. singulative noun prefix
2. iterative verb prefix

References

• Gunther Michelson (1973) A thousand words of Mohawk, University of Ottawa Press, page 9
• Nora Deering, Helga H. Delisle (1976) Mohawk: A teaching grammar (preliminary version), Quebec: Manitou College, pages 146, 344

Etymology

Inherited from Latin ex-.

Prefix

s-

1. privative or negative affix that attaches to verbs

Prefix

s- (class A infixed pronoun, triggers nasalization in some texts but not in others)

1. her (object pronoun)
2. them

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /s/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /s/

Prefix

s-

1. Alternative form of z-

Prefix

s-

1. second person agent pronominal prefix; you

References

• Floyd Lounsbury (1953) Oneida Verb Morphology, Yale University Press, pages 59-60

Alternative forms

• z-, ś-, ze-

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s/

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• Rhymes: -s
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• Homophones: z, z-

Prefix

s-

1. used before voiceless consonants to form a verb in a perfective aspect from a verb in an imperfective aspect

   ‎s- + ‎całkować → ‎scałkować

   ‎s- + ‎chłodzić → ‎schłodzić

2. used before voiceless consonants to mean "in a downward direction"

   ‎s- + ‎chodzić → ‎schodzić

3. used before voiceless consonants to mean "off, off the surface of", "away from", or "out of"

   Antonym: na-

   ‎s- + ‎chodzić → ‎schodzić

Further reading

• s- in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Alternative forms

• sa- (before affricates, fricatives and certain consonant clusters)

Prefix

s- (Cyrillic spelling с-)

1. Prepended to verbs, usually forming a perfective from an imperfective verb.

   ‎s- + ‎pùstiti → ‎spùstiti

   ‎s- + ‎znȁti → ‎sàznati

   ‎s- + ‎lòmiti → ‎slòmiti

   ‎s- + ‎glȅdati → ‎sàgledati

   ‎s- + ‎kȕpiti → ‎skȕpiti

   ‎s- + ‎klòniti → ‎sklòniti

   ‎s- + ‎náći → ‎snȃći

References

• “s-”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024