Alternative form of y- (archaic and dialectal) In dialect, it is sometimes conflated with sense 5 of the previous definition, and is used as a general indicator of a participle.

(no longer productive) Forming words with the sense of wholly, or utterly out.

Not, without, opposite of.

(no longer productive) Towards; Used to indicate direction, reduction to, increase to, change into, or motion.

(no longer productive) Away from.

(no longer productive) Of, from.

Alternative form of -a (“empty syllable added to songs, poetry, verse and other speech”)

(Chester) Used as a prefix to verbs in the sense of remaining in the same condition. Actively doing something.

(nonstandard) A syllable added by a speaker supposed to be Italian, or used to mimic or mock Italian accents; a pseudo-Italian syllable.

(nautical) Behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of.