or-

From Old Dutch ur-, or-, from Proto-West Germanic *uʀ-.

or-

1. A prefix with a variety of meanings, but originally meaning "out" or "original".

From Old English or-, from Proto-West Germanic *oʀ-, *uʀ-, from Proto-Germanic *uz-, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *us-s-, *ud-s-, from *úd (“up, out”). Reinforced by Old Norse or-.

• IPA^(key): /ɔr/

or-

1. (rare) without, void of, bereft of

• English: or- (fossilised)

• a-, ā-, ur-, ǣ-

From Proto-West Germanic *oʀ-, *uʀ-, from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”), from unstressed Proto-Indo-European *uss-, from *uds- (“up, out”). A doublet (or alternative form) of Old English ā- (“a-”). Cognate with Old High German ur-, ir-, ar-, er- (German ur-, and hence the English borrowing English ur-); West Frisian oar-; Dutch oor-/oer-; Gothic 𐌿𐍃- (us-). More at out.

• IPA^(key): /ˈor/

or-

1. original
2. former
3. ex-, out of
4. without, lacking
5. causing deprivation, privative

• oreald
• orwēna (“without hope, hopeless”)

• Middle English: or-
  • English: or- (fossilised)

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “or-”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /ɔr/

or-

1. soft mutation of gor-