ai-

Inherited from Old French a-, from Latin ad-.

IPA^(key): /ɛ/

ai-

1. A prefix forming words, especially verbs, that denote entering a state, making progress toward a goal, or the like.

• Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎^[1] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
• Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎^[2] (in French), Troyes

ai-

1. (masculine, dialectal) third-person singular possessive prefix, his

   Synonym: i-

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Cognate with Tocharian A e-, from Proto-Tocharian *āi-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey- (“to give”).

ai-

1. to give
2. to pay out (money)
3. (middle voice) to take

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “ai-”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 106–107

• àrì- (Ekiti)

àì-

1. negative nominalizing prefix; non- (added to verbs)

   àìkú (“the act or state of not dying”)

   àìbìkítà (“act or state of not caring or carrying; indifference”)

   àìlásìkò (“the act of not having time; timelessness”)

   àìláya (“the act or state of not having a wife; bachelorhood”)

   àìlè (“not being able; the act of not being able to do something”)

   àìnítẹ̀ẹ́lọ́rùn (“the act of not having satisfaction; dissatisfaction”)

   àìsàn (“the state of not being healthy; sickness”)