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by weebull 763 days ago
I was going to ask "What's an Ana and why are we cutting it?"
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“Up” or “thoroughly”, apparently? Same prefix as in analysis, anaphora, anamorphism. Ancient Greek had a sprawling system of prefixes that one can’t really pick up by osmosis, it seems.

(Complaints about noun morphology sound a bit hypocritical from a native speaker of Russian, I know, but it is what it is.)

Same Ana as in Analysis, anaphylactic, anamorphic...