aft
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Etymology 1 edit
From Old English æftan (“behind”); possibly originally superlative of of (“off”). See after.
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aft (usually uncountable, plural afts)
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aft (comparative further aft or more aft, superlative furthest aft or most aft)
- (nautical) At, near, or towards the stern of a vessel (with the frame of reference within the vessel).
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 183:
- I came safe on board, but I felt anything but easy about the boat and the boy; my thoughts were not where they should be, for every moment I had to give the boat and the boy a look, and at last I saw a sea strike the boat aft, which gave it a send forward and under, and the next moment he was gone.
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aft (comparative further aft or more aft, superlative furthest aft or most aft)
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aft (plural afts)
- (dated slang) Alternative form of afternoon: the time of day from noon until early evening.
- 1898, The Hotel/Motor Hotel Monthly, volume 6, page 27:
- 2016, Sally Wainwright, 49:45 from the start, in Happy Valley, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire):
- There's gonna be an announcement later this aft, but he's targeting vulnerable people like yourselves, alright?
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From Proto-Albanian *aweita, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁-. Compare Ancient Greek ἀῦτμη (aûtmē, “breath”), Welsh awel (“breeze”).[1][2]
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aft m (plural afte, definite afti, definite plural aftet)
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- ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)[1] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 71
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “aft”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 2
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Etymology edit
Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἄφθα (áphtha). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
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aft f (plural aften, diminutive aftje n)
- aphtha (a sore in the mucous membrane of the mouth).
Scots edit
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- oft (Older)
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From Middle English ofte, from Old English oft, from Proto-Germanic *ufta.
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aft (comparative after, superlative aftest)
- often
- 1786, Robert Burns, To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough:
- The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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aft (comparative mair aft, superlative maist aft)
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- “aft, adv. and (rarely) adj.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
- Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
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aft (definite accusative afdı, plural aftlar)
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References edit
- “aft”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu