Etymology

afront

A1F4R1O1N1T1

Today it means: in front; face to face Full definition →

English front ← Middle English frount ← Old French front
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂en-
  2. Proto-Germanic*an
  3. Proto-West Germanic*ana
  4. Old Englishon
  5. Middle Englishan
  6. Middle Englisha-
  7. Englisha-
  8. Latinfrontem
  9. Old Frenchfront
  10. Middle Englishfrount
  11. Englishfront
  12. English todayafront

From a- + front.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.