𐌰𐍆𐌰𐍂

Gothic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *afar. Cognate to Albanian afër (“close, nearby”),[1] Sanskrit अपर (ápara, “posterior, later, following”).

Preposition

𐌰𐍆𐌰𐍂 • (afar)

  1. (+accusative) after, following (in time)
  2. (+dative) after, following (in space)
  3. (+dative) according to, in accordance with

Further reading
  • Streitberg, Wilhelm (1910). Die gotische Bibel. Zweiter Teil: Gotisch-griechisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, p. 1

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir (1998), “𐌰𐍆𐌰𐍂”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, page 1
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