in succession; successively · hereafter; thereafter
köken: Etymology tree Latin dein Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Old Latin kapiō Latin capiō Proto-Indo-European *-s Latin -s Latin -ceps Latin deinceps From dein (“thereafter”) + -ceps (“taking”).
köken: From Old Norse eptir, from Proto-Norse ᚨᚠᛏᛖᚱ (after), from Proto-Germanic *aftiri (“more aft, further behind”), *after. Related to Norwegian Bokmål etter, Swedish efter, and English after.
köken: According to BER, inherited from Proto-Slavic *svita. Possibly related to Old Church Slavonic свитати (svitati, “to illuminate”) (whence dialectal Bulgarian сви́тка (svítka, “sparkle”)).
By surface analysis, suivre + -ant. From Old French sivant (variant suiant), present participle of sivre (variant suire). Possibly corresponds to Latin sequentem, through a Vulgar Latin derivative.