Where does “af” come from?

af (Old Norse) comes from Proto-Germanic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European apó.

af (Old Norse): of, from, off, by

Definitions

  1. of, from, off, by

Ancestry of “af”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanic*ab—
2Proto-Indo-Europeanapó—

Words derived from “af”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European apó →Every word from Proto-Germanic *ab →
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