English Explanatory Dictionary

to-

English dictionary entry

Meanings

prefix
  1. apart, away, asunder, in pieces; expressing separation, negation, or intensity.
  2. Parting: forming verbs that involve cleaving, breaking, or sundering.
  3. To do excessively.
  4. Completely.
  5. Moving.
prefix
  1. Used in various ways to indicate temporality:
  2. Current, the current form of the suffixed time. Forming nouns.
  3. On (this) time, which is a fixed point in time. Forming adverbs.
  4. During the suffixed time. Forming adverbs.
  5. Of, as characteristic of the suffixed time period. Forming adverbs and adjectives.
  6. At, at the suffixed time. Forming an unfixed point in time, rather than a duration.
  7. Adding, additional in quantity.
  8. Toward in direction or location.

Word forms

to-

Etymology

From Middle English to-, from Old English tō-, te- (“apart, away”), from Proto-West Germanic *tō-, *tuʀ-, *twiʀ-, from Proto-Germanic *twiz- (“apart, in two”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwís (“two-ways, in twain”).

Related words

all to

Derived words

tobreak tocleave tocrack tocut todrive tofrush togo togrind toquash torace torat torend torit torive toshear toshiver toslive tosliver tosunder totear totread tobeat todash todraw tolash topinch toquake toruffle toshake tostart toswap toswink towind tobruise tohew toput toreave torob toshend tolug to-be to-bread to-come to-do tofore toyear today tomorn tomorrow tonight to-whiles together tofall tosol tomorning to-heap to-name to-draw
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