köken: From Middle High German bevor, bevorn, from Old High German bifora, biforan (“before”, adverb), from Proto-West Germanic *bifuranē. By surface analysis, be- + vor. Cognate with English before.
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”).
köken: Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (pyš /pēš/, “before, pre-, past, beside”), of unclear further origin. Multiple theories have been proposed: proposed etymologies * Horn takes the word as a derivative of Old Persian [script needed] (patiš, “against”), from Proto-Iranian *pati- (“against”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“in front; first”); this is rejected by…
köken: From Old Norse fyrr, from Proto-Germanic *furi, *furiz (“for, before”). Cognates include Swedish före, för, English for, and German für. A different form of the same word, Proto-Germanic *furai, is found in Danish for and German vor.