aptr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aftrą, *aftrē, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epoteros, whence also Old English æfter, Old High German aftar. Compare also eptir. Proto-Germanic *aftrē is probably related to Proto-Germanic *afteraz, *aftraz, and *afarē.

Adverb

aptr

back
again

Descendants

Danish: atter
Faroese: aftur
Icelandic: aftur
Norwegian:
Bokmål: atter

Nynorsk: att
Swedish: åter
Westrobothnian åt, at, att

References

aptr in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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