English

afront

From a- + front.

A compound of a- + front

Proto-Indo-European *uds- ‘up, out’

Proto-Germanic *uz- ‘out-’

Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- ‘up, out, over’

English a-

Latin frōns ‘forehead’

Old French front ‘forehead’

Middle English front

English front

Today it means

adv in front; face to face

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.