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outen

prep
/ˈaʊtən/

Etymology

From Middle English outen, uten, from Old English ūtan (“from outside, on the outside, without”), from Proto-West Germanic *ūtanā, from Proto-Germanic *ūtanē (“from without, outside of”), from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“up, over”). Cognate with Middle Low German ûten (“out, forth”), German außen (“outside, out”), Swedish utan (“without, free from”). More at out.

  1. derived from *úd✻ — “up, over”
  2. derived from *ūtanē✻ — “from without, outside of”
  3. inherited from *ūtanā✻
  4. inherited from ūtan — “from outside, on the outside, without”
  5. inherited from outen

Definitions

  1. Out

    Out; out of; out from.

    • […] so if any of you ginks are me frien's yeh better keep outen here so's yeh won't get hurted.
    • And there was silence again. Then: ‘And you sent that girl away, didn't you? With the money outen that box?’

  2. Being from without

    Being from without; strange; foreign; peculiar.

    • an outen man

  3. To put out

    To put out; extinguish.

    • I shined the light directly in his eyes, temporarily blinding him, then outened it and ran through the tunnel in the dark as best I could, not knowing where I was going.
    • When Susan said good-night and they outened the lights and headed to their respective rooms, Lettie found her most treasured book of poems.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A surname from Dutch.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA