eft

adv 1. of repetition, again, anew, a second time; 1a. of replacement, restoration, renewal; 2. of return, reversal, back, again; (a) to a place; híe eft cómon; (b) to a condition; þu scealt tó eorþan eft geweorðan; (c) of giving; (d) reversal of order; 3. afterwards, then, thereupon, (a) in reference to the past; híe þæt eft dydon they did that again; (b) in reference to the future, hereafter, thereafter; 3a. afterwards, in a later part of a book; 4. where there is a sequence of propositions, statements, again, likewise, moreover; gehíeran hwæt áwriten is…and eft gehíerað þone cwide; in northern texts, Latin re- is rendered by eft-, which is separable: eftcierran becomes eft tó cierrenne; \eft ágiefan to give back, return