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> (but not English)

Well, English has inherited a lot of such families ultimately from Latin: admit, commit, remit, transmit.



I noted this in my comment, but there are no native cases of this. It’s one of the (many) ways in which English is an outlier from its IE relatives. There are, though, some postfix cases where we will use a preposition (as a separate word) after a verb to modify its meaning: e.g, give in, give up, give out, etc.




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