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: Borrowed from Arabic أَوَّل (ʔawwal, “first; in Gulf dialects it means "before"”). Compare Turkish evvel, Azerbaijani əvvəl and Uyghur ئاۋۋال (awwal).
köken: Present participle of προηγούμαι (proïgoúmai), a verb without active forms. Also substantivised. From Ancient Greek προηγούμενος (proēgoúmenos), present participle of προηγέομαι / προηγοῦμαι (proēgoûmai).
Ο προηγούμενος είπε ότι οι ερωτήσεις της προφορικής εξέτασης ήταν δύσκολες.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Old Latin en Latin in Romanian în Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Italic *ap Late Latin ab Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti Proto-Italic *anti Late Latin ante Late Latin ab ante Romanian…
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.