in front of, ahead of (relative location in space) · before, prior to, ahead of (relative location in time) · ago (location in the past relative to the present)
köken: From Middle High German vore, vor, from Old High German fora. Cognate with Dutch voor. Compare English fore.
köken: Inherited from Middle French avant, from Old French avant (“before, prior in time, forward”), from Late Latin ab ante (“before, in front of”), from Latin ab (“from”) + ante (“before”).
earlier; before; sooner; previously; formerly; beforehand (at an earlier time) · soon (in certain phrases) · ahead (temporally), ahead of (when followed by de)
zıt: después, luego, posteriormente, a posteriori
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish antes, from ante with the adverbial -s, the former from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʰe? Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰō Proto-Balto-Slavic *źō Proto-Slavic *za Old Polish za Polish za Polish nim univ. Polish zanim Univerbation of za + nim. First attested in 1612. Compare Kashubian zanim and Silesian zanim.
köken: From Old Church Slavonic прѣди (prědi), the locative case of Proto-Slavic *perdь - an i-stem counterpart of Proto-Slavic *perdъ (“in front of”).