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It won’t be too big of a surprise that the words ‘of’ and ‘off’ come from the same Old English word: ‘of’. However, if we go further back in time, it turns out they’re part of a huge word family that includes ‘after’, ‘ebb’, German ‘von’ (“of”), ‘aber’ (“but”), and Ancient Greek ‘apó’ (“away from”). All of these words can be traced back to the same Proto-Indo-European ancestor. Click my new infographic to explore this family: