Talk:ac-

al-
RFV-sense of the variant of ad- used before certain consonants. I suspect that this only existed in Latin, and not English, where examples of al- etc in this sense are just borrowings of Latin words, as is the case with e.g. allocate. The one example of ag- which claims to have been formed in English (aggenital) is suspect, because aggenitalis (and aggenitus?) seem to exist. Compare Talk:sug-. - -sche (discuss) 20:58, 11 February 2018 (UTC)


 * I've made (the RFVed sense of) al- Latin-only. I see there are four words which claim to have been formed with ac-. - -sche (discuss) 04:41, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I've switched ag- into a Latin entry, too, as all the ostensible examples of it have Latin etyma of which they seem like borrowings. Ac- is trickier: many of the words other dictionaries cite as derivations are obvious wholesale borrowings from other languages (accede, acquire), but accompass does not seem to have a Latin etymon *accompassus (two New Latin works use adcompassus)...but it's also not clear that it uses an ad- derived prefix and not the intensifier a- with the c doubled to ensure correct pronunciation, and/or under the influence of Latin-derived acc- words, and/or because spelling was variable when the word was coined. - -sche (discuss) 05:07, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 21:02, 1 January 2019 (UTC)