in front of, ahead of (relative location in space) · before, prior to, ahead of (relative location in time) · ago (location in the past relative to the present)
köken: From Middle High German vore, vor, from Old High German fora. Cognate with Dutch voor. Compare English fore.
denotes location; before, in front of; ahead of · denotes movement; in front of · denotes time; before
eş: pod, pod, do, zanim
zıt: za, sprzed, po
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Slavic *perdъ Old Polish przed Polish przed Inherited from Old Polish przed.
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…
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).
forward, onward, ahead (directed towards the front) · ahead, in advance (at a more frontal position) · only used in по́-напре́д (pó-napréd, “earlier, first, next”)
zıt: наза́д
köken: Univerbation of на (na, “on”) + пред (pred, “forward”).