eptir

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Norse ᚨᚠᛏᛖᚱ (after), from Proto-Germanic *aftiri (“more aft, further behind”), *after, from Proto-Indo-European *apotero (“further behind, further away”), comparative form of *apo- (“off, behind”). Compare also aptr.

Adverb

eptir

Alternative forms

ęptir
eftir

Descendants

Danish: efter
Faroese: eftir
Icelandic: eftir
Norwegian: etter
Swedish: efter
Westrobothnian: ätter, ätt

References

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

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