Alternative Spelling guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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prefix
Alternative form of all-.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, idiomatic, morpheme
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prefix
Alternative form of ad- (“to, toward”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, morpheme
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History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2el-der.? Proto-Indo-European *h2elnós Proto-Germanic *allaz Proto-Germanic *ala- Proto-West Germanic *ala- Old English æl- Middle English al- English al- From Middle English al-, from Old English eal-, eall- (“all-”). More at all.
Assimilated form of ad- before l. From Latin ad-.
