Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *aftaiScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_aftai
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Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und PronominalstämmeGeorge E.DunkelUniversitätsverlag Winter22014Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013A Grammar of Proto-GermanicWinfred P.LehmannUniversity of Texas Press1986b𐌰𐍆𐍄𐌰behind𐌰𐍆𐍄𐍂𐌰again, back
adverbbehind; in back; at the rearA Proto-Germanic adverbial locative in *-ai, built secondarily to a reanalyzed stem *aft- abstracted from *after (‘after, behind’). The reinterpretation was probably *af-ter → *aft-er, after which a static locative form *aft-ai was created to the newly reanalyzed stem, comparable in structure to *furai (‘before, in front’) Dunkel 2014: 66–86Kroonen 2013: 3. Gothic 𐌰𐍆𐍄𐌰 is the key direct reflex; it has often been treated as an error for 𐌰𐍆𐍄𐍂𐌰, but Lehmann 1986: s.v. afta keeps it distinct because 𐌰𐍆𐍄𐍂𐌰 does not normally mean simply ‘behind’. This is consistent with the static “where?” value of *aftai, as opposed to the broader temporal/local range of *after.