Early Hick Lexicon — Regional Terms
Entries in the Regional Terms semantic field.
- im /im/
- privative prefix: without, lacking, deprived of (lexinfo:Prefix) — Western Seneran variant used mainly in fossilized compounds and regional landscape terms. It contrasts with standard mo- as the general negation prefix. [Negation, Derivational Morphology, Regional Terms]
- Predominantly western Seneran privative prefix developed from im 'evil, abstract negativity' through semantic bleaching from harmful or defective to lacking or without.