offa

See also: Offa

English

Etymology 1

Preposition

offa

  1. (colloquial) Off of.

Etymology 2

Verb

offa

  1. Pronunciation spelling of offer.

Anagrams

Bavarian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle High German offen, Old High German offan, ofan, ophan, from Proto-West Germanic *opan. Cognate with German offen, Low German open, apen, Dutch open, English open, Danish åben, Swedish öppen. Related to auf.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈofːɐ/

Adjective

offa (West Central Bavarian)

  1. open
    Synonym: auf
    Antonym: zua

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from a Celtic language;[1] links have been proposed to Welsh yfflon (“pieces, bits”) and oddf (“knot, bulb”).[2][3]

Pronunciation

Noun

offa f (genitive offae); first declension

  1. morsel; piece; chunk
  2. dumpling

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative offa offae
genitive offae offārum
dative offae offīs
accusative offam offās
ablative offā offīs
vocative offa offae

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: offa
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Old French: offe, osfe
  • ⇒? Vulgar Latin: *offitta, *offetta
    • Italo-Romance:
      • Italian: fetta (see there for further descendants)

References

  • “offa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “offa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “offa”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014), A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Self-published: Xlibris, →ISBN, p. 742
  2. ^ Walde, Alois (1910), “offa”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 2nd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 537
  3. ^ Ernout, Alfred; Meillet, Antoine (1985), “offa”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 459
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