Reconstruction:Proto-Albanian/apsera
Proto-Albanian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editRepresenting a contamination of *aps, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éps, a derivative of *h₂epo (“off, away”) (reflected in Ancient Greek ἄψ (áps, “backwards”), Latin abs), with *h₂éperos. Cognate to Sanskrit अपर (ápara, “posterior, later, following”), Gothic 𐌰𐍆𐌰𐍂 (afar, “after”), Old Persian 𐎠𐎱𐎼 (a-p-r /apara/, “later, after”), Avestan 𐬀𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬀 (apara, “more behind, later”).[1]
Preposition
edit*apsera (*apsera)
Related terms
edit- Proto-Albanian *apa[2]
- Albanian: pa
Descendants
edit- Albanian: afër
References
edit- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “afër”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 1
- ^ W. B. Lockwood, A Panorama of Indo-European languages, Hutchinson, 1972, p. 185