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1 ana-
I.negative prefix, Old Irish an-, sometimes aspirating; Gaelic ana-creidimh, disbelief, Old Irish ancretem, but ainfhior, untrue; Middle Irish ainfhír. This suggests a Celtic anas- for the first, and ana- for the second, extensions of the previous an-; cognate are Greek $$Ga$$'\nis, $$Ga$$'\neu, without; German ohne, Gothic inu, without.II.ana-, an-, ain- -
2 an-
I.negative prefix, Irish an-, Old Irish, an-, in-; Welsh, Cornish, Breton an-; Celtic an, Indo-European n$$.-, Latin in-, Greek $$Ga$$'-, $$Ga$$'n-, English un-, Sanskrit a-, an-, etc. It appears before labials and liquids (save n) as am-, aspirated to amh-; with consequent "small" vowels, it becomes ain-, aim-, aimh-. Before g, it becomes ion-, as in iongantas. Before c, t, s, the an- becomes eu- and the t and c become medials (as in beud, breug, feusag). See also ana-.II.ana-, an-, ain- -
3 ain-
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