efter

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English

Noun

efter (plural efters)

  1. (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

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

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

Preposition

efter

  1. after; subsequent; later in time than

Adverb

efter

  1. later, afterwards (in time)
  2. after (in a sequence)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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

efter

  1. (Riksmål) after; subsequent; later in time than

Adverb

efter

  1. (Riksmål) later, afterwards (in time)
  2. (Riksmål) after (in a sequence)

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English after, from Old English æfter, from Proto-West Germanic *aftar.

Preposition

efter

  1. after

Adverb

efter (not comparable)

  1. after

Conjunction

efter

  1. after

References

Swedish

Etymology

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

Adjective

efter (not comparable)

  1. (only used predicatively) slow (from notion of behind others)
    Han är lite efter
    He is a bit slow

Adverb

efter (comparative mer efter, superlative mest efter)

  1. after

Preposition

efter

  1. after; subsequent; later in time than or later in a sequence than
  2. for (seeking, in pursuit of)
    att ringa efter hjälp
    to call for help
  3. by; as in one by one, one after another
    en efter en
    one by one
  4. by; in a manner conforming or corresponding to
    Sortera dem efter storlek och färg
    Sort them by size and color
  5. by; using the rules or logic of

Derived terms

References

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian efter, from Proto-West Germanic *aftar (“more aft, further behind”).

Preposition

efter

  1. behind

Further reading

  • “efter”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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