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to prep. expressing motion or direction towards an object, addition, or the notion of the dative; with inf. meaning ‘for the purpose or with the object of’ (doing something), hence serving without meaning as a sign of the inf.; adv. (with full stress) surviving as in to and fro, shut to, and the like, and in TOO. OE. tō adv. and prep. (mainly with dat.) = OS. tō (Du. toe adv.), OHG. zō, zuo (G. zu) :- WGmc. *tō, alongside OE. (ME.) te = OS. te, ti (Du. te), OHG. ze, zi, za :- WGmc. *ta. The IE. base *d⊛, d⊛ is repr. also by L. endo. indu (poet.) in, dōnec until, Gr. oîkonde homewards, OSl. do to, till.

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