Friday, 23 October 2015

prefixes - On a peculiar use of the preposition/adverb "out"

It can be placed before the stem of many a word to produce verbs of a very distinctive kind! For example:



outdate, outgrow, outlay, outlive, outmatch, outnumber, outrun, outsmart, outsource, outstrip, outweight, outwit,...



Is there another preposition/adverb in the English language that when used as a prefix originates such a noticeable amount of new verbs? Is there a generic term that can be used to refer to preposition/adverbs of this persuasion?



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