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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *afti</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
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        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_afti</idno>
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          <monogr>
            <title level="m">Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme</title>
            <author>
              <forename>George E.</forename>
              <surname>Dunkel</surname>
            </author>
            <imprint>
              <publisher>Universitätsverlag Winter</publisher>
              <biblScope unit="volume">2</biblScope>
              <date>2014</date>
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          </monogr>
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          <monogr>
            <title level="m">The Proto-Germanic n-Stems: A Study in Diachronic Morphophonology</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Guus</forename>
              <surname>Kroonen</surname>
            </author>
            <imprint>
              <publisher>Rodopi</publisher>
              <date>2011a</date>
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          </monogr>
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          <monogr>
            <title level="m">Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Guus</forename>
              <surname>Kroonen</surname>
            </author>
            <imprint>
              <publisher>Brill</publisher>
              <date>2013</date>
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          <monogr>
            <title level="m">Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture</title>
            <editor>
              <forename>James P.</forename>
              <surname>Mallory</surname>
            </editor>
            <editor>
              <forename>Douglas Q.</forename>
              <surname>Adams</surname>
            </editor>
            <imprint>
              <publisher>Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers</publisher>
              <date>1997</date>
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        <item xml:id="cog_ave_apa" xml:lang="ave" type="cognate">
          <orth>𐬀𐬞𐬀</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>apa</orth>
          </form>
          <def>away</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_grc_apo" xml:lang="grc" type="cognate">
          <orth>ἀπό</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>apó</orth>
          </form>
          <def>from, away</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_grc_apotero" xml:lang="grc" type="cognate">
          <orth>ἀπωτέρω</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>apōtérō</orth>
          </form>
          <def>farther off</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_hit_a_ap_pa_appa" xml:lang="hit" type="cognate">
          <orth>𒀀𒀊𒉺</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>a-ap-pa /āppa/</orth>
          </form>
          <def>behind; afterwards</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_h2epo" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*h₂epó</orth>
          <def>off, away</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_lat_ab" xml:lang="lat" type="cognate">
          <orth>ab</orth>
          <def>from, away from, out of</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_san_apa" xml:lang="san" type="cognate">
          <orth>अप</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>ápa</orth>
          </form>
          <def>away, off</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_san_apataram" xml:lang="san" type="cognate">
          <orth>अपतरम्</orth>
          <form type="translit">
            <orth>apatarám</orth>
          </form>
          <def>further away</def>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_afti" type="adverb" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/afti">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>afti</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈɑɸ.ti</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᚨᚠᛏᛁ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>adverb</pos>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>afterwards, later; again, once more</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From Proto-Germanic <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto" target="#pgmc_after"><ref target="#pgmc_after">*after</ref></mentioned> by resegmentation as <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*aft-er</mentioned> from original <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*af-ter</mentioned>, with a new adverb <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*aft-i</mentioned> formed on the model of goal/allative adverbs and prepositions in <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*-i</mentioned> (a fossilized locative/adverbial element likely from the Proto-Indo-European locative case ending; see <bibl corresp="#kroonen2011a" n="85–86">Kroonen 2011a: 85–86</bibl>). A similar formation is <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto" target="#pgmc_furi"><ref target="#pgmc_furi">*furi</ref></mentioned>&lt; pre-Germanic <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*pr̥h₂-i</mentioned>) <bibl corresp="#kroonen2013" n="s.v. *furi">Kroonen 2013: s.v. *furi</bibl>. The original base is from Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="ine-x-proto" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_h2epo"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_h2epo">*h₂epó</ref></mentioned>. Compare Ancient Greek <mentioned xml:lang="grc" target="#cog_grc_apo"><ref target="#cog_grc_apo">ἀπό</ref></mentioned>, Sanskrit <mentioned xml:lang="san" target="#cog_san_apa"><ref target="#cog_san_apa">अप</ref></mentioned>, Avestan <mentioned xml:lang="ave" target="#cog_ave_apa"><ref target="#cog_ave_apa">𐬀𐬞𐬀</ref></mentioned>, Latin <mentioned xml:lang="lat" target="#cog_lat_ab"><ref target="#cog_lat_ab">ab</ref></mentioned>, and Hittite <mentioned xml:lang="hit" target="#cog_hit_a_ap_pa_appa"><ref target="#cog_hit_a_ap_pa_appa">𒀀𒀊𒉺</ref></mentioned>. For its posterior derivative <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*h₂ep-tero-</mentioned> (‘farther back, later’); compare Sanskrit <mentioned xml:lang="san" target="#cog_san_apataram"><ref target="#cog_san_apataram">अपतरम्</ref></mentioned> and Ancient Greek <mentioned xml:lang="grc" target="#cog_grc_apotero"><ref target="#cog_grc_apotero">ἀπωτέρω</ref></mentioned> <bibl corresp="#dunkel2014" n="79">Dunkel 2014: 79</bibl> <bibl corresp="#ref1997" n="42">Mallory &amp; Adams 1997: 42</bibl>.</seg>
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                <form type="descendant">
                  <orth>Proto-West Germanic *afti</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>æft, eft</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <orth>Proto-West Germanic *afti</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>eft</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <orth>Proto-West Germanic *afti</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>eft</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>eft, ept</orth>
                </form>
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