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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
y-
a prefix occurring in certain obsolete words (ywis) and esp. in archaic past participles: yclad.
Also, i-.

[Origin: ME y-, i- (reduced var. a-), OE ge-, prefix with perfective, intensifying, or collective force; c. OFris, OS ge-, gi-, Goth ga-, G ge-; cf. perh. L com- com-]
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y- 
perfective prefix, in y-clept, etc.; a deliberate archaism, introduced by Spenser and his imitators, representing an authentic M.E. prefix, from O.E. ge-, originally meaning "with, together" but later a completive or perfective element, from P.Gmc. *ga-. It is still living in Ger. and Du. ge-, and survives, disguised, in some Eng. words (e.g. alike, aware).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Y-

Ge-\ An Anglo-Saxon prefix. See Y-.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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