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Where does “SF” come from?

Sf derives from English sixty-fourth, a term of unknown meaning and origin.

SF (English): a book size one sixty-fourth of the size of a...

Definitions

  1. a book size one sixty-fourth of the size of a...

Ancestry of “SF”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishsixty-fourthThe ordinal form of the number sixty-four,...
2English-thUsed to form nouns from verbs of action; Used to...
3Middle English-ethUsed to form the third-person singular present...
4Old English-eþ—
5Proto-Germanic-þi—
6Proto-Indo-European-ti—
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