Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *aftanē

Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *aftanē Scott K. Shay Wardja Press https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_aftanē

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Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme George E. Dunkel Universitätsverlag Winter 2 2014 The Proto-Germanic n-Stems: A Study in Diachronic Morphophonology Guus Kroonen Rodopi 2011a Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11) Guus Kroonen Brill 2013 The American heritage dictionary of Indo-European roots Calvert Watkins Boston Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011 *apó off, away *-néh₁ that way; indeed *-tero- contrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix

adverb from behind, behind From *aft- + *-(a)nē. The base *aft- was secondarily abstracted from *after after reanalysis of *af-ter as *aft-er; *after itself continues a locative comparative formation *ap(o)-tero-, from Proto-Indo-European *apó + *-tero- Kroonen 2013: 3 Watkins 2011: s.v. apo-. The suffix *-(a)nē belongs to the Proto-Germanic directional system, where prepositional/adverbial bases form an allative, locative, and ablative series, perhaps ultimately involving PIE *-néh₁ Dunkel 2014: 60–62 Kroonen 2011a: 85–92.