Re as a prefix~

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I read an English book that says re is used as a prefix in the words ~report and result. Is that correct? I'm confused.

I also saw in that book that dis is a prefix in the word discord. Hmmm...

Please help. I know that re is a prefix in the words like remake and rearrange. Dis is a prefix in disagreement. But I'm not sure with discord, result and report.
 
I read an English book that says re is used as a prefix in the words ~report and result. Is that correct? I'm confused.

I also saw in that book that dis is a prefix in the word discord. Hmmm...

Please help. I know that re is a prefix in the words like remake and rearrange. Dis is a prefix in disagreement. But I'm not sure with discord, result and report.
result
[Middle English resulten, from Medieval Latin result
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re, from Latin, to leap back, frequentative of resil
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re : re-, re- + sal
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re,to leap; see sel- in Indo-European roots.]
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/result

report
[Middle English, from Old French, from reporter, to report, from Latin report
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re : re-, re- + port
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re, to carry; see per-[SUP]2[/SUP] in Indo-European roots.]
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/report

I have no trouble accepting them as prefixes since that's how they started. I think it would depend on the purpose of the analysis though.
I'd call the English word "result" one morpheme if I were doing a morphological analysis of the word.
Which "English book" said this?
 
It's an elementary English book for Filipino students.
 
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