stucche
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Old English styċċe (“piece, fragment”), from Proto-West Germanic *stukkī, from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją (“piece”). Akin to Old Saxon stukki, Dutch stuk, Old High German stukki, stucchi (“a crust, fragment, piece”), German Stück, Icelandic stykki (“a piece”).
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Noun edit
stucche (plural stucches or stucchen)
- piece, fragment, bit, a section of text
- c. 1225, “Introduction”, in Ancrene Ƿiſſe (MS. Corpus Christi 402)[1], Herefordshire, published c. 1235, folio 4, recto; republished at Cambridge: Parker Library on the Web, 2018 January:
- I þis deſtinctiun aren chapitreſ fiue · as fif ſtuchen efter fif ƿitteſ þe ƿiteð þe heoꝛte aſ ƿakemen […]
- In this part there are five chapters or sections, corresponding to the five senses that monitor the heart like watchmen […]
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References edit
- “stich(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.