stucche

Middle English

Alternative forms

• stecche, stech, steche, sticche, stitche, stuche

Etymology

Inherited 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈstit͡ʃ(ə)/, /ˈstɛt͡ʃ(ə)/, /ˈstut͡ʃ(ə)/

Noun

stucche (plural stucches or stucchen)

1. 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 […]

Related terms

• stucchen

References

• “stich(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.