æfter
Old English
adv
Definitions
- after
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *after inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epoteros (further away, further behind).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂epoteros
Gloss
further away, further behind
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- after English
- aber German
- *apotero Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂epotero- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂epoteros Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂epótero- Proto-Indo-European
- atter Norwegian Bokmål
- *afar Proto-Germanic
- *after Proto-Germanic
- *aftrą Proto-Germanic
- att Norwegian Nynorsk
- atter Norwegian Nynorsk
- after Middle English
- aptr Old Norse
- aptrganga Old Norse
- atter Danish
- aftur Icelandic
- after Old High German
- aftero Old High German
- afur Old High German
- avur Old High German
- aftur Faroese
- after Middle High German
- aver Middle High German
- אָבער Yiddish
- after Old Dutch
- achter Middle Low German
- aftar Old Saxon
- ater, āter Old Swedish
- åtåbak Westrobothnian
- efter Scots
- after Old Frisian
- efter Old Frisian
- ächter German Low German
- awer Hunsrik
- ᚨᚠᛏᛖᚱ Proto-Norse