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Sur-

//sɚ// prefix

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Prefix
  1. 1
    A syncopic variant of super-. morpheme

    "surreach, surrebutter, surreine, surreined, surrejoinder, surreply, surreverently, surroyal"

  2. 2
    A stem in pre-Christian Lithuanian names morpheme

Etymology

From Middle English sur-, from Old French sur-, sour-, sor-, soure-, a syncopic form of the Latin super. Doublet of super-, over-, and hyper-.

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