efter
English edit
Noun edit
efter (plural efters)
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A thief who frequents theaters.
- 1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, page 60:
- […] E was an Efter, that went to the play; / F was a Fogle he knapped on his way; […]
References edit
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse eptir, from Proto-Norse ᚨᚠᛏᛖᚱ (after), from Proto-Germanic *aftiri (“more aft, further behind”), *after. Related to Norwegian Bokmål etter, Swedish efter, and English after.
Pronunciation edit
Preposition edit
efter
- after; subsequent; later in time than
Related terms edit
Adverb edit
efter
- later, afterwards (in time)
- after (in a sequence)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Danish efter, from Old Norse eptir, from Proto-Norse ᚨᚠᛏᛖᚱ (after), from Proto-Germanic *aftiri (“more aft, further behind”), *after. Related to Norwegian Bokmål etter, Swedish efter, and English after.
Preposition edit
efter
- (Riksmål) after; subsequent; later in time than
Related terms edit
Adverb edit
efter
- (Riksmål) later, afterwards (in time)
- (Riksmål) after (in a sequence)
Scots edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English after, from Old English æfter, from Proto-West Germanic *aftar.
Preposition edit
efter
Adverb edit
efter (not comparable)
Conjunction edit
efter
References edit
- “efter” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse eptir, from Proto-Germanic *aftiri (“more aft, further behind”), *after, from Proto-Indo-European *apotero (“further behind, further away”), comparative form of *apo- (“off, behind”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
efter (not comparable)
- (only used predicatively) slow (from notion of behind others)
- Han är lite efter
- He is a bit slow
Adverb edit
efter (comparative mer efter, superlative mest efter)
Preposition edit
efter
- after; subsequent; later in time than or later in a sequence than
- for (seeking, in pursuit of)
- att ringa efter hjälp
- to call for help
- by; as in one by one, one after another
- en efter en
- one by one
- by; in a manner conforming or corresponding to
- Sortera dem efter storlek och färg
- Sort them by size and color
- by; using the rules or logic of
Derived terms edit
References edit
West Frisian edit
Etymology edit
From Old Frisian efter, from Proto-West Germanic *aftar (“more aft, further behind”).
Preposition edit
efter
Further reading edit
- “efter”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011