Etymology

afterness

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Today it means: The state or quality of being or coming after. Full definition →

English after ← Middle English after ← Old English æfter
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ep
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂epó
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ep(o)teros
  4. Proto-Germanic*after
  5. Old Englishæfter
  6. Middle Englishafter
  7. Englishafter
  8. English todayafterness

From after + -ness.

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