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Where does “tuf” come from?
tuf (French) comes from Italian tufo, from Latin tōfus — tuff (kind of rock).
tuf
(French): tuff
Definitions
tuff
Ancestry of “tuf”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Italian
tufo
tuff
2
Latin
tōfus
tuff (kind of rock)
Words derived from “tuf”
tuff
tuffaceous
metatuff
tufacé
tuffeau
tuf
hyalotuff
tuffite
tuffness
tuf
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