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”).
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: Ultimate derivation unsettled, with likely theories including 1) a shift from 真(ま)手(て) (mate, “both hands”), considering Man'yōshū spellings of 二手 (literally “two hands”), 左右手 (literally “left and right hands”), and 諸手 (literally “both hands”); or perhaps a shift or other relation to 的(まと) (mato, “target”). First attested in the Kojiki of 712 with the phonetic spelling 摩弖 (mate). Cognate with…
until, till, by (a time), up to · Used to illustrate to what extent an action will continue. · Used to illustrate the degree or intensity of a situation.
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean ᄭᆞ자ᇰ〮 (Yale: skòcáng), from -ㅅ (Yale: -s, genitive marker) + ᄀᆞ자ᇰ〮 (Yale: kòcáng, “very, extremely”).
toward, to · up to (indicating direction upwards) · near, by, close by, at, to (indicating location)
köken: From Proto-Italic *ad, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“near, at”). Cognates include English at. The accusative is from the hypothesized pre-PIE allative (or 'directional'), which merged with the accusative case in Proto-Italic.
aile: ad absurdum, ad amussim, ad arma, ad astra, ad hoc, ad hominem, ad infinitum, ad kalendas Graecas, ad libitum, ad nauseam
Fugere ad puppim collēs campīque videntur.
Meridie umbrae cadunt ad septentrionem, ortu vero ad occasum.
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.