Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗prefix
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryWith contrary, subordinate, or remote effect, denoting hindrance, setback, inferiority, etc. · With adverbial or adjectival effect, forming compound words indicating something that comes afterwards in spacial position. · With prepositional effect, forming compound words denoting something which follows the second element of the compound, and is less intense or significant. · With prepositional effect, forming compound words denoting follows and is a result of the second element of the compound.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep(o)teros Proto-Germanic *after Old English æfter Middle English after English after ▲ Old English æfter Old English æfter- Middle English after- English after- From after (adverb and preposition), and also continuing Middle English after-, efter-, æfter-, from Old English æfter- (“after, behind, against”). Cognate with Scots efter-, West Frisian efter-, Dutch achter-, German after-, Swedish efter-. More at after.
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