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As for the women found among these men, they were to suffer the cucking-stool--this is a tumbrel, the name of which is composed of the French word coquine_, and the German stuhl_.

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  1. preposition Derived or coming from; originating at or from: customs of the South.
  2. preposition Caused by; resulting from: a death of tuberculosis.
  3. preposition Away from; at a distance from: a mile east of here.

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  • You question just what sort of dictionary we are running that we do not give the proper pronunciation of a French word.
  • The use of a French word saved him a long circumlocution. —  Rashi
  • His use of a Greek word to a marginally educated secretary could have been innocent, but somehow I knew, instantly, that it was not. —  A Letter of Mary - Laurie R. King - Russell-Holmes 03
  • This set Mr. Freeman growling at the use of a Greek word, and he exclaimed, “Why can't you speak English and say Home Rule, instead of using Greek, which you don't know!” My husband flushed with anger, and recalled the irritable historian—not without severity—to a proper sense of the respect due to their host, at the same time paying a tribute to Mr. Macmillan's remarkable abilities. —  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Sometimes, it is true, the Chinese endeavoured to give, besides the sounds, a translation of the meaning of the Sanskrit words. —  Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old English; see apo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English of, off, from Anglo-Saxon of, rarely af, æf = Old Saxon af = OFries. of, ef, af = Dutch af = Middle Low German Low German af = Old High German aba, apa, Middle High German G. ab = Icelandic af = Swedish Danish af = Gothic (Moesogothic) af = Latin ab = Greek ἀπό = Sanskrit apa, from, away from, etc. Cf. ab-, apo-. Hence off, the same word differentiated as an adverb, and now also used as a preposition
  2. Middle English of, of and off not being distinguished in Middle English
 

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