Where does “après” come from?
après (Norman) comes from Old French aprés, from Latin ad pressum, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos.
après (Norman): after
Ancestry of “après”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old French | aprés | after; afterwards |
| 2 | Latin | ad pressum | — |
| 3 | Latin | Ad | — |
| 4 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 5 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 6 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | — |