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  • prefix Prefix meaning on, at, toward, upon.

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From Middle English on-, from Old English on-, an-, from Proto-Germanic *an-, *ana- (“on-”), from Proto-Indo-European *ano-, *nō- (“on”). Cognate with Dutch aan-, German an-, Swedish an-.

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