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: Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (pyš /pēš/, “before, pre-, past, beside”), of unclear further origin. Multiple theories have been proposed: proposed etymologies * Horn takes the word as a derivative of Old Persian [script needed] (patiš, “against”), from Proto-Iranian *pati- (“against”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“in front; first”); this is rejected by…
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…
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.