eptir

== Old Norse == === Alternative forms === ept, at ᛁᚠᛏᛁᛦ (iftiʀ), ᛁᚠᛏᛁᚱ (iftir), ᛁᛒᛏᛁᛦ (ibtiʀ), ᛅᚠᛏᛁᛦ (aftiʀ), ᚬᚠᛏᛁᛦ (ąftiʀ), ᛅᛒᛏᛁᛦ (abtiʀ) === Etymology === From Proto-Norse ᚨᚠᛏᛖᚱ (after), from Proto-Germanic *aftiri (“more aft, further behind”), *after, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epóteros (“further behind, further away”), comparative form of *h₂epó (“off, behind”). Compare also aptr. === Preposition === eptir after [with dative] === Adverb === eptir after afterwards along ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: eftir Faroese: eftir Norn: efter Middle Norwegian: ettir, iftir, ættir Norwegian Nynorsk: etter → Norwegian Bokmål: etter Old Jamtish: efti Jamtish: ette Elfdalian: etter Old Swedish: æptir, æftir, ættir Swedish: efter Old Danish: æftær, æftir Danish: efter Norwegian Bokmål: efter (unofficial, riksmål) Scanian: ætte Old Gutnish: eptir, aktr, ebtir, efter, eftir, epter Gutnish: etta, ettar, yttur (fårö) === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “eptir”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive Runor Gutnish online-dictionary