nach-

Formed from the preposition nach (“past, after”)

• IPA^(key): [naːχ]

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nach- (separable)

1. indicates a later action as in nacharbeiten, nachbessern
2. indicates following or pursuit of someone or something, as in nachgehen, nachfahren
3. indicates repetition or succession, as in nachfüllen, nachkaufen
   1. to check something nachzählen, nachprüfen
   2. to improve something, as in nachfärben (“redye”), nachhelfen (“give extra help; private lessons”)
4. indicates the exact copying of something as in nachmachen, nachdrucken (“reprint”), nachahmen, nachbeten
5. indicates a purposeful action, as in nachdenken, nachforschen

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nach-

1. Alternative form of ná (negative particle used with the imperative) used before an infixed pronoun

Takes a connecting vowel a (in the Milan glosses) or i (in the Würzburg glosses) before a consonant-initial infixed pronoun.

• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003), D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, pages 265, 539