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PREFIXES
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Gle- is a contraction of the adjectiv gletik or of its radical glet, greatness. Many other prefixes are similarly formed from nouns and adjectivs.

Sma-, from smalik, small; smabed, nest (little bed).
Blä-, from blägik, black; Bläfot, the Black Forest.
Vie-, from vietik, white; viebod, white bread.
Ba-, from bal, one; bafom, uniformity.
Mö-, from mödik, many, much; möpükik, polyglot; möflanik, many-sided.
Si-, from sil, heaven; prefix for constellations or zodiacal signs: Sijip, Aries; Sijutel, Saggitarius; Sifits, Pisces.
Nolü-, Sulü-, Lefü-, Vesü-, from Nolüd, Sulüd, Lefüd, Vesüd, North, South, East, West; Nolümelop, North America; Vesünidän, West Indies.
Bä-, from bapik, low, and vä-, from valik, all, with a change of vowel.

Other prefixes are simple prepositions, and most of them can be so used.

Bevü, between, inter-; bevünetik, international.
Bif, before (in place), contracted to bi-, pre-; bisiedön, to preside.
De, from: de-, ab-, off-, away; defal, falling off; defiledön, to burn off; deyulön, to abjure.
Ko-, ke-; with; com-, con-, syn-; koköm, coming together; kelied, compassion; kevobel, colaborer; kezenodön, to concentrate.
Len-, towards, ad-; lenpük, address; lensumön, to assume, take to one's-self.
Love-, over, super-; lovedugön, to lead over; lovelogön, to overlook; lovepenäd, superscription, something written over; lovepolam, translation.
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