*apo- "off, away"
Lt ab- "off, away from“
Old Eng æfter = of + -ter (a comparative suffix)
Gk apo "from, away from; after; in descent from“
Eng awk "turned backwards, wrong, contrary"
Proto-Germanic *afug-
PIE *apu-ko
Eng of, off
Proto-Germanic *af
Latin post "behind, after, afterward"
*pos-ti
Eng awkward "in the wrong direction" = awk + -ward
Latin praeposterus "absurd, contrary to nature, inverted, perverted, in reverse order, (lit: before-behind)" = prae + posterus
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