Where does “af” come from?
af (Middle Low German) comes from Old Saxon af, from Proto-Germanic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European apó.
Ancestry of “af”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old Saxon | af | of; out |
| 2 | Proto-Germanic | *ab | — |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | apó | — |