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
- after
- afterwards
- along
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