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Where does “af” come from?
af (Old Saxon) comes from Proto-Germanic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European apó.
af
(Old Saxon): of; out
Definitions
of; out
Ancestry of “af”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Proto-Germanic
*ab
—
2
Proto-Indo-European
apó
—
Words derived from “af”
afbrekan
afheldian
af
of
afleggen
afwaschen
afwolteren
of
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