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- prefix no longer productive Prefix meaning
around ,about .
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From Middle English um-, umbe-, embe-, from Old English ymb-, ymbe- ("around"), from Proto-Germanic *umbi (“around, about, by, near”), from Proto-Indo-European *ambʰi (“by, around”). Cognate with Dutch om- ("around"), German um- ("around"), Latin amb- ("around, about"), Latin ambi- ("both"), Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí-, "around, about"), Sanskrit अभि (abhi, "against, about"). More at umbe.
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