Etymology

postwar

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English war ← Middle English werre ← Old English werre
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*pós
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pósti
  3. Proto-Italic*posti
  4. Old Latinposte
  5. Latinpost
  6. Englishpost-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*wers-
  8. Proto-Germanic*werzaną
  9. Proto-West Germanic*werʀan
  10. Frankish*werʀ
  11. Early Medieval Latinwerra
  12. Old Northern Frenchguerre
  13. Old Englishwerre
  14. Middle Englishwerre
  15. Englishwar
  16. English todaypostwar

From post- + war.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.