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Abhor
I don't get this. The prefix here means away from, but when used in aborigine, it means from. Is this a contranym prefix? But this word evolved most interestingly from its PIE root of ghers, which meant stand ou, rise to a point, bristle, which is exactly what one does when shuddering or trembling with dread.
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Re: Abhor
Perhaps it relates to the multiple meanings of the Latin preposition ab, mirrored in Greek. Both languages allow ab to take one of three or four possible cases: locative, instrumental, dative, and perhaps accusative. Context determines meanings: to, from, of...
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