New Verbs In English

Let's look in detail at the prefix 're-'. In its common, productive use, it adds the idea "again"

to think, to re-think

to fill, to re-fill

to open, to re-open

to create, to re-create

But sometimes this meaning is not evident, and the meaning of the compound is not just an addition of "again" to the base word:

to move, to remove ≠ "to move again"

to turn, to return ≠ "to turn again"

to form, to reform ≠ "to form again"

to search, to research ≠ "to search again"

In some cases, you can even have 're-' without the remainder of the word existing in English:

to remit to mit??

to revive to vive??

In these cases, the word was borrowed from Latin without the "base", but similar things can happen when a base word falls out of use in a language: cf. uncouth or unkempt, where couth and kempt are no longer used.

These same kind of issues will apply in a language like Lefa.