of
/ɔv/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 7.40 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
2
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep
Expressing distance or motion.
prep
Expressing distance or motion.
prep
prep
prep
prep
Example Sentences
- "Take the chicken out of the freezer."
- "Sir said Galahad by this shelde ben many merueils fallen / Sir sayd the knyght hit befelle after the passion of our lord Ihesu Crist xxxij yere that Ioseph of Armathye the gentyl knyghte / the whiche took doune oure lord of the hooly Crosse att that tyme he departed from Iherusalem with a grete party of his kynred with hym"
- "Against headache, vertigo, vapours which ascend forth of the stomach to molest the head, read Hercules de Saxonia and others."
- "He hasn't been well of late."
- "And he axed his father: howe longe is it agoo, sens this hath happened hym? And he sayde, of a chylde."
- "one that I brought vp of a puppy […] I was sent to deliuer him, as a present to Mistris Siluia, from my Master."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Germanic *ab Proto-West Germanic *ab Old English æf Old English of Middle English of English of From Middle English of, from Old English of (“from, out of, off”), an unstressed form of æf, from Proto-West Germanic *ab, from Proto-Germanic *ab (“away; away from”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“away”). Doublet of off, which is the stressed descendant of the same Old English word. More at off.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: of, *ab, *h₂epó
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɔv/
- British English: /ɒv/