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.
forward (toward the front) · forward (into the future)
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Old Spanish a- Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Old Spanish de Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Old Latin en Latin in Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i…
aile: adelantar, adelante con la cruz, adelante con los faroles, de aquí en adelante, el que adelante no mira, atrás se queda, en adelante, Gran Salto Adelante, ir adelante, llevar adelante, más adelante
köken: Borrowed from Arabic أَوَّل (ʔawwal, “first; in Gulf dialects it means "before"”). Compare Turkish evvel, Azerbaijani əvvəl and Uyghur ئاۋۋال (awwal).
indicates anteriority. before · of space. in front, before, forwards · of time. before
zıt: post
köken: From Proto-Italic *anti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti, locative singular of the root noun *h₂ent- (“front, front side”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “opposite, facing”), Sanskrit अन्ति (ánti), Old Armenian ընդ (ənd), Tocharian B ānte, and English and. The change from PIE ablative to Latin accusative is like the confrontational accusative used with Ancient Greek παρά (pará).
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.