stucche
Middle English
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editEtymology
editInherited 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”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editstucche (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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editReferences
edit- “stich(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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