*afti

From Proto-Germanic *after by resegmentation as *aft-er from original *af-ter, with a new adverb *aft-i formed on the model of goal/allative adverbs and prepositions in *-i (a fossilized locative/adverbial element likely from the Proto-Indo-European locative case ending; see (Kroonen 2011a: 85–86)). A similar formation is *furi< pre-Germanic *pr̥h₂-i) (Kroonen 2013: s.v. *furi). The original base is from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó. Compare Ancient Greek ἀπό (apó), Sanskrit अप (ápa), Avestan 𐬀𐬞𐬀 (apa), Latin ab, and Hittite 𒀀𒀊𒉺 (a-ap-pa /āppa/). For its posterior derivative *h₂ep-tero- (‘farther back, later’); compare Sanskrit अपतरम् (apatarám) and Ancient Greek ἀπωτέρω (apōtérō) (Dunkel 2014: 79; Mallory & Adams 1997: 42).