oh-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "oh"

Choctaw

Prefix

oh- (before consonants ho-, imperative second-person plural)

  1. the subject of an imperative verb
    let you (all), do you (all), do ye
  2. (obsolete) used in place of ordinary pronominal suffixes in the communication between in-laws, especially a man and his mother-in-law
    Im ia lih. → Oh ia lih. (traditional spelling)
    I went with him.

Inflection
Choctaw Person Markers
class I class II class III class N imperative
+s+C+V+C/i+a/o+C+V+C+V+C+V
first-person singular initial -li sa- si- a̱- am- ak- n/a
medial -sa--sam-
paucal ī- il- pi- pi̱- pim- kī- kil-
plural hapi- hapi̱- hapim-
second-person singular is- ish- chi- chi̱- chim- chik- ∅
plural has- hash- hachi- hachi̱- hachim- hachik- ho-oh-
third-person ∅ ∅ i̱- im- ik-

East Central German

Etymology

From oh, from Middle High German abe, ab, from Old High German ab, from Proto-West Germanic *ab(a), from Proto-Germanic *ab. Compare German ab-.

Prefix

oh-

  1. (Erzgebirgisch, non-gloss definition, Separable verb prefix that indicates removal or quitting,) off, away.
    ‎oh- + ‎flahe (“to rinse, wash”) → ‎ohflahe (“to rinse off, wash off”)
    ‎oh- + ‎taae (“to thaw, melt”) → ‎ohtaae (“to defrost”)
  2. (Erzgebirgisch, non-gloss definition, Separable verb prefix that indicates a downward movement,) down.
    Synonyms: runnr-, nunnr-
    ‎oh- + ‎steing (“to rise, climb, increase”) → ‎ohsteing (“to descend, dismount, get off”)
  3. (Erzgebirgisch, non-gloss definition, Noun prefix that indicates being different from the source or) deviation.

Antonyms
  • (antonym(s) of “on”): ah-
  • (antonym(s) of “up”): off-

Derived terms
East Central German terms prefixed with oh-

References
  • Wörterbuch der obersächsischen und erzgebirgischen Mundarten, P. 4
  • 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎, 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 93:
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