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Where does “ab” come from?

ab (Old French) comes from Latin apud, from Latin ad post.

ab (Old French): with

Definitions

  1. with

Ancestry of “ab”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinapudat, by, near, among; before, in the presence of,...
2Latinad post—
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