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\ \ [OE] In the first millennium AD many Germanic languages had forms cognate with Old English æfter (Gothic aftra, for example, and Old Norse aptr), but, with the exception of Dutch achter, none survive. It is not clear what their ultimate origin is, but the suffix they share may well be a comparative one, and it is possible that they derive from a Germanic base *af- (represented in Old English æftanfrom behind’). It has been suggested that this goes back to Indo-European *ap- (source of Latin abaway, from’ and English of(f)), in which case after would mean literally ‘more off’ – that is, ‘further away’.
\ \ Nautical aft is probably a shortening of abaft, formed, with the prefixes a- ‘on’ and be- ‘by’, from Old English æftan.
\ \ Cf.OF, OFF

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