Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *aftumôScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_aftumô
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A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic LanguagesRobert D.FulkJohn Benjamins Publishing Company2018From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English, 2nd edition)DonRingeOxfordOxford University Press2017*apóoff, away*-tero-contrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix
adjan/īn-stemlast, latter; following, nextFrom the Proto-Germanic adverbial stem *aft- (‘after, behind’), extracted from *after + *-umô. The base is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *apó + *-tero-, reanalyzed as *apt-er from the original *ap-ter, while *-umô is the weak n-stem continuation of PIE *-m̥-o-, an extremal or absolute-superlative suffix used especially to form spatial adjectives from local adverbs Fulk 2018: 219Ringe 2017: 318.