stucche

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English styċċe (“piece, fragment”), 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”).

Noun

stucche (plural stucchen)

  1. piece, fragment, bit, a section of text
    I þis destinctiun aren chapitres fiue, as fif stuchen, efter fif wittes. — Ancrene Wisse, c1230
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