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off-

prefix

Etymology

From Middle English of-, from Old English of-, æf- (“off, away, down, un-”), from Proto-Germanic *aba- (“off, away”), combining form of *ab(a), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off, away”). Cognate with Dutch af- (“off, away, down”), German ab- (“off, from, down”), Latin ab- (“from, of”), Ancient Greek ἀπο- (apo-, “away from, without”). Doublet of apo- and ab-. Equivalent to off. Compare of.

  1. derived from *h₂epó✻ — “off, away”
  2. inherited from *aba-✻ — “off, away”
  3. inherited from of-
  4. inherited from of-

Definitions

  1. Away from

    Away from; off.

  2. not quite

    not quite; almost

    • off-white

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for off-. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA