Aft

Aft is a word from Low German and means behind. It is now common only in sailor language in High German, but has kept in northern Germany and in the Low German street names such as " Achter de Kark " ( behind the church ).

For the etymology

Aft is a derivation to eighth, which comes from the Low German. The word comes eighth in NHG before since the 18th century and it is also used in a number of derivatives and compounds.

Use of the word

In the Low German language and in sailor aft or aft - the High German counterparts replaced the rear or behind -. Examples are " stern " for the rear part of a ship, " stern " for the rear Steven (or jokingly the buttocks), " run astern " for " go backwards".

Furthermore, positional and directional terms are common, for example, astern - behind the ship or to the rear.

As aft lake is called seas, following the ship, abaft wind is a tailwind.