Which preposition to use with derivation

of Occurrences 164%

It is undeniable, for example, that the evidence in favour of the derivation of the horse from the later tertiary Hipparion, and that of the Hipparion from Anchitherium, is as complete and cogent as such evidence can reasonably be expected to be; and the further investigations into the history of the tertiary mammalia are pushed, the greater is the accumulation of evidence having the same tendency.

from Occurrences 33%

[Footnote H: A spurious derivation from the verb [Greek: leipo].]

as Occurrences 3%

" We find in the popular poetry of Piers Plowman almost as many words of French derivation as in the work of the more aristocratic Chaucer.

in Occurrences 3%

We tried to find its derivation in French, without success, and Greek and German were no better.

to Occurrences 2%

It is not true, that Sir Thomas Brown was the prototype of Dr. Johnson, who imitated him only as far as Sir T. B. resembles the majority of his predecessors; that is, in the pedantic preference of Latin derivations to Saxon words of the very same force.

Which preposition to use with  derivation