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outlandish

adj
/ˌaʊtˈlændɪʃ/UK/ˌaʊtˈlændɪʃ/US/ˌæɔtˈlændɪʃ/

Etymology

The adjective is derived from Middle English outlandisch, outlondish (“foreign”), from Old English ūtlendisċ (“foreign; strange, outlandish”), from Proto-West Germanic *ūtlandisk, from Proto-Germanic *ūtlandiskaz, from *ūtlandą (“(adjective) alien, foreign; relating to outlying land; (noun) foreign land; outlying land”) + *-iskaz (suffix forming adjectives from nouns with the sense ‘characteristic of; pertaining to’). *Ūtlandą is derived from *ūt- (suffix meaning ‘beyond; external to, on the outside of’) (from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“away; out, outward; upwards”)) + *landą (“area of ground, land”) (from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“heath; land”)). By surface analysis, outland + -ish. The noun is derived from the adjective. Cognates * Danish udenlandsk (“foreign, non-domestic”) * Dutch uitlands (dated) (now buitenlands (“foreign, non-domestic”)), Dutch uitlandig (“absent from the home country”) (now chiefly Suriname) * Faroese útlendskur (“foreign, non-domestic”) * German ausländisch (“foreign, non-domestic”) * Icelandic útlenskur (“foreign”) * Swedish utländsk (“foreign, non-domestic”)

  1. inherited from *lendʰ-✻ — “heath; land”
  2. inherited from *úd✻ — “away; out, outward; upwards”
  3. inherited from *ūtlandiskaz✻
  4. inherited from *ūtlandisk✻
  5. inherited from ūtlendisċ — “foreign; strange, outlandish”
  6. inherited from outlandisch

Definitions

  1. Of or from a foreign country

    Of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native; alien, foreign.

    • [W]e haue bꝛokẽ thy ſtatutes ⁊ cõmaundementes agayne, ⁊ mengled o^ꝛ ſelues wᵗ the vnclẽnes of the outlandiſh heithen.
    • Apiſhneſſe rides in a Chariot made of nothing but cages, in which are all the ſtrangeſt out-landiſh Birds that can be gotten: […]
    • Did not Solomon king of Iſrael ſinne by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloued of his God, and God made him king ouer all Iſrael: neuertheleſſe, euen him did outlandiſh women cauſe to ſinne.

  2. Appearing to be foreign

    Appearing to be foreign; strange, unfamiliar.

    • Roast beef and plum pudding are also held in superstitious veneration, and port and sherry maintain their grounds as the only true English wines; all others being considered vile outlandish beverages.

  3. Greatly different from common experience

    Greatly different from common experience; bizarre, outrageous, strange.

    • The rock star wore black with outlandish pink and green spiked hair.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Of a place

      Of a place: far away from where most people are located; in the middle of nowhere, out of the way, remote.

      • It will be very convenient to have a medical man—if he is clever—in one's own parish. I get dreadfully nervous sometimes, living in such an outlandish place; and Sherton is so far to send to.

    2. A foreign language.

      • Never ſtir if that Gentleman ben't the ſame that vve ſee'd at the Painting Man's, that vvas ſo zivil to Mother, only he has got a black VVig on, and ſpeaks outlandiſh.

The neighborhood

Derived

outlandisher, outlandishlike, outlandishly, outlandishness, unoutlandish

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for outlandish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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