Etymology

fromwards

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Today it means: away from Full definition →

Old English framweardes
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromframweardes“in a direction away from”
  2. English todayfromwards

From Old English framweardes (“in a direction away from”); equivalent to from + -ward + -s. Compare froward.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.